As you may recall, in my previous column, I started to consider why the 30-year-old eight-bit 8051 microcontroller remains a valuable player in the embedded systems game. The days, months, and years ...

New 32-bit ARM Cortex-M3 devices are constantly being announced, while the 8-bit 8051 core still forms the basis of many diverse microcontrollers. And market leader Renesas has something for everyone.

For the autonomy and robustness of the onboard control system with intelligent sensors and actuators, a microcontroller-based flexible and extensible architecture is proposed. The low-level ...

Redundancy control can effectively enhance the stability and robustness of a system. Based on the conventional redundancy control switchover and majority arbitration strategy, this paper introduces ...

We’ve explored how to support your specific microcontroller by adding support for the architecture and configuring the linker script. There are a few more steps you can take to continue your Embedded ...

Atmel (R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) announced today that it has shipped its 500 Millionth AVR (R) Flash Microcontroller. Atmel introduced the AVR 8-bit Microcontroller Architecture in 1997.