Controllers that once handled large mechanical systems now work inside smaller digital and mechanical devices. These microcontrollers are not the same as embedded computer processors, however.

Systems with boot-loaders have at least two program images coexisting on the same micro-controller and must include branch code that performs a check to see if an attempt to update software is in ...

Such systems use microcontrollers (MCUs) or microprocessors (MPUs), or they may use custom-designed chips. Deployed by the billions each year in myriad applications, the embedded systems market ...

The Embedded Systems Conference, East Coast Version ... (see Software Reigns at ESC), this year's Fall ESC predominantly featured microprocessor and microcontroller product rollouts prior to the show.

Some of the microcontroller company strategies are on stage at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Francisco this week. All are designed to accommodate the ubiquitous connectivity of even deeply ...

Compatibility — software, peripheral and pinout — are key components of any microcontroller family in the quest to deliver embedded systems developers with a viable path to reduced development ...

For the course’s final project, teams designed, built, and programmed open-ended hardware/software systems utilizing microcontrollers that feature a processor, memory, and peripherals within a single ...

This build is based around an ESP32 for which freeRTOS, designed specifically for embedded systems, is uniquely suited. There are several channels built in capable of monitoring temperature ...