This 8-bit microcontroller from Motorola features flash program memory, an analog-to-digital converter, and a type of watchdog timer that monitors whether the CPU is operating properly. The ...

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 ...

Indeed, in 2014 -- 42 years after Intel’s rollout of the 8008 -- the godfather of microcontrollers accounted for 39.7% of overall sales revenues in the MCU market, according to Gartner Inc.’s “Market ...

NEC Electronics announced the Kx1+ Series , the newest 8-bit member of the K_Line microcontroller (MCU) family. The 78K0/Kx1+ Series represents the first 8-bit MCUs offered by NEC Electronics to ...

An in-system programming (ISP) capability highlights the new VRS1000-40 8-bit 8051-based microcontroller. Thanks to its hardware features and powerful instruction set, the VRS1000 ...

[Craig] sent in a link to this project which manages to implement color tracking on an 8-bit microcontroller at 60 frames per second. That’s some pretty incredible performance, but we’r… ...

The 8-bit microcontroller celebrated its 44th birthday this year, but even though its making its way into many new applications, some very common myths surround the elder statesman of the embedded ...

Precision Frequency Measurement Library For 8-bit Microcontrollers 7 Comments by: Mike Szczys June 3, 2011 ...