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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Offering total system power savings for co-processor designs, Texas Instruments Incorporated announces the new MSP430F521x/F522x microcontroller family. These new microcontrollers support a main ...