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 ...

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 ...

Although Embedded Multitasking With Small Microcontrollers is not an exhaustive treatise on multitasking operating systems, it does a good job on the two areas it does address: state machines and ...

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 ...