Here at Gizmodo, a number of do-it-yourself projects are featured that incorporate microcontrollers. If you’ve never worked with one before, don’t feel daunted, here’s an overview to help you select ...

Microcontrollers are one of the main digital components that we cover in Electronic Design. Personally, I love to work with micros because it's easy to understand the features and capabilities as well ...

2016 was a great year for Open Hardware. The Open Source Hardware Association released their certification program, and late in the year, a few silicon wizards met in Mountain View to show off the ...

In this article, I'll be explaining the basics of how microcontrollers work, physically and virtually. First off, microcontrollers are no simple thing, so don't be discouraged if you find it ...

Characteristics and contrasts with microprocessors. Hints on selecting and deploying microcontrollers. What might be on the horizon for microcontrollers, especially the competition between Von Neumann ...

The venerable 8-bit microcontroller just keeps chugging along. Despite the performance advantages of its 16- and 32-bit siblings, 8-bit micros still accounted for a substantial percentage of the ...

We use a microcontroller without a second thought, in applications where once we might have resorted to a brace of 74 logic chips. But how many of us have spared a thought for how the microcontroller ...

As many as half of all embedded designs have an FPGA next to a microcontroller. The FPGA can be used to implement anything from glue logic, to custom IP, to accelerators for computationally intensive ...

Atmel has released its first family of embedded Flash microcontrollers for the ARM Cortex-MO+ Core processor, enhancing the company's traditional eight-bit portfolio with a line of 32-bit performance ...

MCUs enter into the next wave of growth as new applications such as the Internet of Things and wearable systems emerge. February 3, 2015 -- The outlook for microcontrollers continues to strengthen ...