Traditional control-system designs use separate switches to control power and various system functions, but adding a few components to a small, microprocessor-based system can combine a control ...

When the microprocessor and inexpensive ROM memory arrived in the early 1970s, building small, stored-program computing systems became practical. System designers learned that with the rapidly growing ...

As I get more and more used to analog control of power giving way to digital control, I often look for applications where the microprocessor is controlling the entire show. I do this for several ...