Microcontrollers are everywhere and their use is growing. But a better understanding of their characteristics and potential use cases can help when it comes to selecting and deploying the technology.

MIPS Technologies has added a number of enhancements to its base architecture that make its embedded microprocessors look more like microcontrollers. The main additions have been used in ...

Portsmouth, England – April 30, 2009 – ARM is forecast to pass Power Architecture and x86 to become the leading 32-bit microcontroller and embedded microprocessor architecture in 2011, according ...

Innatera Nanosystems BV, a leading developer of neuromorphic processors that roughly mimic the functioning of the human brain ...

For microprocessors ... with hardware extensions to the x86 architecture showing up in Intel and AMD processors a decade ago. Microcontrollers and systems on a chip have not had hardware ...

The NEC K Series comprises the K0, K0S, and K4 families, all of which derive from a common architecture. NEC's K0 family ... which allows the microcontroller to stop the main clock and continue to ...

The 8-bit Z80 architecture debuted in 1976 and powered ... Zilog will continue to manufacture the eZ80 microcontroller family, which was introduced in 2001 as a faster version of the Z80 series ...

The Qorivva 32bit MPC5674F achieved a benchmark score of 305 Automarks in the Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark ... "Developed from the original Power Architecture technology, we have been enhancing ...