Editor's Note: View the Fundamentals of Microcontrollers to catch up on the architectural differences, selection, set up and programming of today's micros. To work through the thicket of choices, it's ...

Silicon Labs has announced an 8-bit microcontroller with a core voltage of 0.9 volt. Texas Instruments makes many low-power claims with the 16-bit MSP430. Infineon and Freescale have many automotive ...

Looking to effectively take microcontrollers to address new markets, Microchip Technology Inc. this week introduced what it says is the smallest and least expensive microcontroller on the market today ...

RISC-V is an architecture specification that can be implemented at many levels from a simple microcontroller or even a pile of 74 logic to a full-fat application processor.

The lines between what is a microcontroller and what is a processor have blurred forever, particularly in the 32-bit microcontroller market, where the two are almost interchangeable. In fact, Intel is ...

ARM moves its TrustZone security into its ARMv8-M microcontroller architecture. This will help improve IoT security in the long run. ARM’s TrustZone security has been key to its higher-end ...

It’s generally pretty easy to spot a microcontroller on a PCB. There are clues aplenty: the more-or-less central location, the nearby crystal oscillator, the maze of supporting passives, and … ...