MAKING IT EASIER TO DEBUG Debugging on an 8-bit microcontroller without ICE (in-circuit emulation) hardware can be an exercise in patience. Developers using 32-bit processors are used to much more.

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 famil… ...

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 ...

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 ...

Turning these videos into talkies was a bit of a problem, but after taking an uncompressed .WAV file and sending that to a PWM pin on the ATMega, [Vinod] managed to play sound alongside his video.

The 8-bit PIC has made its mark as a mainstream architecture. To-morrow's PIC is moving up to a 16-bit implementation with added DSP functionality. Proprietary PIC vendor Microchip ...

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.

One reason for the compact instructions is that the architecture, except for the accumulator, is memory-mapped. Also, National based the COP8 on a modified Harvard architecture. COP8 chips can run ...

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