Hackaday

Scratch Your Itch To Program A Microcontroller

One of the fun things about “old school” computers is that it was fairly easy to get kids into programming them. The old Basic interpreters were pretty forgiving, and you could do some clever things ...
Geeky Gadgets

MPLAB PICkit Basic In-Circuit Debugger : Microcontroller Debugging Tool $29

Microchip Technology has introduced the MPLAB PICkit Basic, an affordable and versatile in-circuit debugger designed to simplify programming and debugging for engineers, hobbyists, and students. The ...
Design-Reuse

Rad-Hard 8051 Microcontroller Mates with Honeywell MRAM for Two-Chip, 300 krad Space Ampplications Solution

AUSTIN, Texas, August 23, 2005 – Silicon Laude (pronounced “laudee†) announces the availability of the world’s first, and only, radiation-hardened and radiation-tolerant MCS8051 ...
EDN

8051 CPU with 4kB Memory, 24-Bit ADC, Current DAC, and On-Chip Oscillator

The MSC1200Yx, MSC1201Yx, and MSC1202Yx are completely integrated families of mixed-signal devices incorporating a high-resolution, delta-sigma ADC, 8-bit current output DAC, input multiplexer, ...
EDN

Data choices help compress 8051 code

Some people think that programs for microcontrollers like the 8051 that have limited program memory must be written in assembly language rather than a high-level language like C. The executable code ...