As computer systems become more and more ubiquitous in everyday items, the workings of those items will require some sort of digital controlling. Controllers that once handled large mechanical systems ...

When 8- and 16-bit microcontroller companies spot the opportunities that exist in the emerging net-centric computing-device and embedded Internet market, they sometimes act like deer caught in the ...

I am in the process of updating my book "Electronics Explained," published by Newnes/Elsevier. The book is essentially a basic electronics text for those learning about electronics for the first time.

SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 30, 2008 – Building on its heritage of embedded microcontroller innovation, Zilog, Inc. (Nasdaq: ZILG) today introduced its new Encore! 32 Series Microcontroller for home or ...

Arithmetic logic unit (ALU), which performs computation. Registers needed for the basic operation of the CPU, such as the program counter (PC), stack pointer (SP), and status register (SR). Further ...

The Xport 2.0 lets you take advantage of millions of dollars worth of Nintendo hardware engineering in the Game Boy Advance, turning it into a user-programmable embedded microcontroller for directing ...