Choosing a microcontroller is a matter of convenience, but it doesn’t have to be this way. There are dozens of different ARM cores alone, hundreds of 8051 clones, and weirder stuff including the ...

Understanding the trade-offs between different microcontroller architectures can help in making an informed decision that balances performance, cost, and complexity.

The GR716B radiation-hardened microcontroller from Frontgrade Gaisler handles multiple tasks over extended periods in space.

Figure 1: Renesas Electronics, the #1 microcontroller supplier worldwide, offers various microcontrollers with features that protect software integrity and prevent hacking. Most modern ...

The first is the flexibility of programmable IO that an FPGA can offer. While a microcontroller has fixed and limited IO, an FPGA can be programmed for various IO interface standards (I2C, I2S, RGB, ...