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 ...

There is a simple reason why the 8-bit microcontroller continues to defy expectations and maintain impressive growth. Cost is king. If it is possible to solve a problem using an 8-bit microcontroller, ...

Listing 1 shows a simple engineering method to design single-pole, lowpass-digital-filter firmware for 8-bit microcontrollers. The low-end Freescale MC68HC908QT2 is the target of the assembler program ...

The APS1 from Cortus is a cost effective 32 bit processor core specifically designed to address the needs of engineers wishing to move from traditional 8 bit microcontroller cores. Designed ... The ...

The humble 8-bit microcontroller has a long and prosperous life ahead of it, says Ross Bannatyne of Silicon Labs If you looked up 8-bit microcontroller in a dictionary in 1995, you would find verbiage ...

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 ...

The package also uses a thin abstraction layer which will make it easy to port to any 8-bit microcontroller which is programmed in C. Posted in Arduino Hacks , Microcontrollers Tagged arduino ...

The ATmega640, ATmega1280 and ATmega2560 microcontrollers come in a 100-pin housing, while the ATmega1281 and ATmega2561 devices are available in a 64-pin package. The 100-pin versions include 4 UART ...

[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 TMP86P20XP low-cost One-Time-Programmable (OTP) microcontroller handles 8-MHz operation. It comes in two versions: The TMP86P202P supports a ceramic or crystal resonator, ...

The DFPIC166X is a low-cost, high performance, 8-bit, fully static soft IP Core. The core has been designed with a special concern about low power consumption, assuring the best power use, price ...