The nucleus of the ST9 comprises a core that includes the CPU, the register file, interrupt and DMA controllers, and the memory-management unit (MMU). The MMU lets you address as much as 4 Mbytes of ...

While regular Hackaday readers already know how to blink a LED with a microcontroller and have moved onto slightly more challenging projects such as solving the Navier-Stokes equations in 6502 ...

Like just about everyone we know, [Luis] decided a gigantic RGB LED matrix would be a cool thing to build. Gigantic LED matrices are very hard to build, though: not only do you have to deal with large ...

Embedded microcontrollers are the original SoC devices. In the last few years FPGA and PLD manufacturers have proffered the term "System- on- a Programmable Chip" (SOPC) which captures the idea of ...

For a number of reasons, including cost, embedded microprocessors have been required to take on tasks for which they are not always well suited. Frequent interruptions from the outside world is one ...

Characteristics and contrasts with microprocessors. Hints on selecting and deploying microcontrollers. What might be on the horizon for microcontrollers, especially the competition between Von Neumann ...

A fundamental skill that embedded software developers need to master is understanding how to write drivers. Within an embedded system, there a typically two types of drivers: microcontroller ...

German semiconductor giant Infineon Technologies AG and Apex.AI are partnering to expedite automotive software development by integrating Infineon’s Aurix TC3x microcontroller and Apex.AI’s software ...

The 386 has disappeared from the desktop-PC market but has developed a strong presence in embedded-PC applications. Register-based, the 80386 architecture has four general-purpose registers, four ...