Building a CPU out of logic gates is a great way to learn about the inner workings of microprocessors, and we’ve seen several impressive projects in this area. [c0pperdragon] set himself the task of ...

The year Intel rolled out its first 8-bit microprocessor, Apollo 17 landed on the Moon. The Volkswagen Beetle became the best-selling car in history, surpassing the Ford Model T. And “The Godfather” ...

The term "Bit Slicing" was once dominant in history books as a technique for constructing a processor from processor modules of smaller bit width where each of these components processes one field or ...

I'm sure that you will recall my mentioning my friend Joe Farr in previous blogs. Joe is an all-round expert in software and hardware – and he's a mega-expert on anything to do with PIC ...

Microcontrollers have come a long way, with 8-bit MCUs demonstrating tremendous resilience and application innovations through advances in memory, power consumption, packaging, and peripherals. 8-bit ...

New 8-bit microcontrollers continue to reach upward in features and performance—reaching 100 MIPS—and 32-bit processors keep pushing downward in performance and cost (see sidebar “Squeezing the 16-bit ...