Inside any electronic device, from an old television remote to a global positioning system, there will be at least one microcontroller unit (MCU) and, in many cases, several. MCUs are used in ...

Microcontrollers and FPGAs often work together in embedded systems. As more functions move into the FPGA, however, debugging the interface between the two devices becomes more difficult. The ...

This paper describes the design and implementation of a version of the 8051 microcontroller, one of the most commercially used microcontrollers in FPGA with reconfigurable instruction set.

Today, microcontroller families typically have dozens of versions that have various combinations of GPIO configurations: SPIs, UARTs, I2Cs, etc. to address the needs ...

Fig 1. Intel’s E600C blends an Intel Atom processor with an Altera FPGA on a multi-chip package linking the two using PCI Express links. Fig 2. Xilinx’s Zynq-7000 EPP puts a full dual-core Cortex-A9 ...

When you think of microcontroller development, you probably picture either a breadboard with a chip or a USB-connected circuit board. But Tim Ansell pictured an ARM dev board that is almost completely ...

Altera’s non-volatile MAX 10 FPGA is a great platform for custom microcontroller applications. Soft core processors like NIOS II can take advantage of on-chip SAR ADCs. Altera’s non-volatile MAX 10 ...

Actel, the FPGA specialist, has come up with a new product concept with which it plans an assault on the microcontroller market. “Half the chip is FPGA divided into two segments, one for a ...