Eventually, [Matt] stumbled across this awesome resource for 8051 programming. ... You have to use the 8051. Of all the microcontrollers I’ve used, it is by far the most painful.

Woodcliff Lake, NJ, USA and Villotta di Chions, Italy -- June 09 2015 -- Semiconductor intellectual property company CAST Inc. and silicon device programming leader SMH Technologies today have ...

There are rumors of a cheap chip that does USB natively, has an Open Source toolchain, and costs a quarter. These aren’t rumors: you can buy the CH552 microcontroller right now. Surprisingly,… ...

Although 8051-compatible microcontrollers with SPI ports are available, a lower-cost device with an SPI port bit-banged through GPIO pins often suffices. The code shown here takes advantage of ...

Implementing a customized 8051 microcontroller in an FPGA is still relatively expensive for volumes of 10,000 to 100,000 pieces. So one of the unique features of the kit is a royalty-free license to ...

Data I/O(R) Corporation (Nasdaq:DAIO), the leading provider of manual and automated programming systems today announced support for Flash-based microc ...

NXP Semiconductors N.V. has released its new version of integrated development environment for programming its ARM Cortex-based microcontrollers called LPC series. The new version LPCXpresso 6 ...

Microcontrollers continue to improve their networking capabilities. CMX's DHCP Client, one of these improvements, eliminates the need to use fixed IP addresses on a range of 8- and 16-bit ...