EDN

Control issues: How FPGAs can address MCUs’ general-purpose I/O scaling wall

Microcontrollers, in many ways, are the indispensable engines of our world. With hundreds of billions of them in use, MCUs play a variety of different but equally important roles in almost every ...
Design-Reuse

Cypress MicroSystems Offers LIN Bus Design Kit for Programmable System on Chip (PSoC) Microcontroller

BOTHELL, Wash., September 19, 2002 – Cypress MicroSystems Inc., a subsidiary of Cypress Semiconductor (NYSE: CY), today announced a reference design that enables automotive engineers to build ...
TechRepublic

Implementation of AMBA AHB Protocol for Wide Narrow BUS-SLAVE Combination Using VHDL

The Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture (AMBA) is an open System-on-Chip bus protocol for high-performance buses on low-power devices. In this paper, the authors implement a simple model of AMBA ...
Automation World

Microcontroller Incorporates Fieldbus and I/O

The xCORE family of multicore microcontrollers can be used in industrial devices ranging from simple sensors and actuators to protocol bridges, high-performance PLCs, and motor controllers. Even if ...
EDN

Comparing AMBA AHB to AXI Bus using System Modeling

Embedded system designers have a choice of using a shared or point-to-point bus in their designs. This article discusses the construction of an Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture (AMBA) ...