Why should designers offload a microcontroller’s CPU? Performance and power consumption are the typical reasons for adding offload capability to a microcontroller. Traditionally, any hardware ...

The latest announcement of a strategic partnership with Renesas opened the door for RISC-V startup SiFive into the club of established semiconductor manufacturers. With its Series 7 processors, SiFive ...

We’re all familiar with overclocking desktop computers; a wonderful introduction to thermal design power and the necessities of a good CPU cooler. [Marcelo] wanted to see how far he could overclock a ...

This LSI is a high performance CMOS 8-bit microcontroller equipped with an 8-bit CPU nX-U8/100 and integrated with peripheral functions such as the UART, RC oscillation type A/D converter, and LCD ...

STMicroelectronics' new FIVE platform, an intelligent controller unit, combines a microcontroller core with a decision-processor block. You use the decision processor to accelerate rules-based ...

The xcc700 is a very small, lightweight C compiler designed specifically for the ESP32 microcontroller. It is like a mini ...

Big changes are happening in the microcontroller market. That statement alone should give pause for most design engineers and raise their level of skepticism. In the past, microcontrollers were a ...

Renesas Technology has started full production of RX610 microcontrollers which are based on its new unifying RX CPU core. The RX CPU implements a complex instruction set computer (CISC) architecture ...

Allegedly, the CPU core will be based on the open source RISC-V instruction set architecture, rather than an ARM based architecture such as ARMv6-M or the company’s latest ARMv8-M, which are more ...

There are currently around 600 programming languages to choose from, so picking the one that’s right for you can be pretty difficult. But if you’re looking for a language that’s incredibly popular, ...