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 ...

San Jose, Calif. — Microcontroller maker Microchip Technology Inc. wants consumers to throw its products in the trash. Last week, it unveiled an 8-bit MCU, crammed into a tiny six-pin package, that it ...

Because the main concern in migrating from an 8-bit microcontroller to a 32-bit device is how to reuse existing software, designers need 32-bit choices that offer peripheral compatibility with 8-bit ...

New BB5 family provides more development choices for simple applications. "In today's world, with an ever-expanding list of IoT devices, MCUs play a critical role in embedded computing," said Dhiraj ...

Backend demand for 8-bit microcontroller units (MCU) will stay weak through the end of the year, while demand for 32-bit MCUs, as well as industrial and automotive MCUs, will remain stable, according ...

Designers and programmers face several obstacles when an 8-bit microcontroller (MCU) no longer meets the performance needs of their application and a change in architecture is required. At the top of ...

Dozens of 8-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) inhabit the average new automobile, which says something about both 8-bit MCUs and automobiles. Today's automobiles are nothing like their predecessors. Whereas ...

Modern embedded designs require a wide range of capabilities, including low power support, high performance/throughput, function-rich peripherals, different ...

Eight-bit microcontrollers-called that because they operate on data eight bits at a time-continue to dominate the microcontroller market, although 32-bit controllers are showing faster market growth.

Princeton Technology recently launched an MP3 decoder and 8-bit micro-controller unit (MCU), aimed at the market for MP3 players, PDAs (personal digital assistants) and digital reading pens and radios ...