In fact, the new architecture includes some twists that higher-end processors may institute in the future. For example, bit banging is common in microcontrollers.

When we are introduced to the internals of a microprocessor, it is most likely that we will be shown something like one of the first generation of 8-bit CPUs from the 1970s. There will be the ...

8-bit microprocessors in a low cost battle groundRichard Wilson STMicroelectronics is taking on the low cost 8-bit microcontroller afficionados, namely Motorola, Atmel, Philips and Microchip, with its ...

[Vinod] sent us his way of playing video on these small color screens, surprisingly using only an ATMega32 microprocessor. The build started off by saving uncompressed image data on an SD card ...

64-bit RISC-V Multicore Processor with 1024-bit Vector Extension AndesCore™ AX45MPV 64-bit multicore CPU IP is an 8-stage superscalar processor with Vector Processing Unit (VPU) based on AndeStar™ V5 ...

IXYS’ wholly-owned subsidiary, Zilog, Inc., will offer the 4- and 8-bit microcontrollers acquired from Samsung, as well as its current expansive MCU product offerings.

Cypress MicroSystems this year introduced an 8-bit architecture that includes the ability to create and dynamically change analog and digital peripherals during runtime through software control.

Proprietary PIC vendor Microchip is developing the next-generation 16-bit architecture, which will combine microcontroller and DSP capabilities.

This article presents the aspects of building USB3.0 application using low performance 8-bit microcontroller taking an 8051 derivative as an example. First it gives a technical overview of the USB ...

The COP8's accumulator-based architecture includes six to eight control and data registers, one of which is an 8-bit program-status register. The CPU also includes two 8-bit address registers, a ...