These are major producers of microcontrollers and/or microprocessors where we provide a more detailed description of their entire product lines. Companies are listed in no particular order.

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 ...

What are Microprocessors and Microcontrollers? Microprocessors and microcontrollers are essential components of an embedded system. These are single-chip processors that accelerate the computing ...

The register-based PICmicro family comprises the eight-pin PIC12C5xx/67xx, the baseline PIC16C5x, the midrange PIC16Cxx, and the high-end PIC17Cxx. These controllers employ a modified Harvard, RISC ...

Microcontrollers are taking on a variety of new and much more complex computing tasks, evolving from standalone chips to more highly integrated devices that can rival complex microprocessors.

Embedded microcontrollers are the original SoC devices. In the last few years FPGA and PLD manufacturers have proffered the term "System- on- a Programmable Chip" (SOPC) which captures the idea of ...

Although the 68HC12 is a true 16-bit architecture, it has the same register set and interrupt stacking order as the 68HC11. In addition, the 208 instructions of the HC12 are a superset of the HC11's ...