Unlike other microcontrollers I investigated, the BASIC Stamp furnishes only a small memory space-16 words (32 bytes)-in which you can save data. The BASIC software takes six of those bytes for I/O ...

The microcontroller’s CPU reads program code from memory, one instruction at a time, decodes each instruction, and then executes it. All memory content—both program code and data—is in binary form: ...

When considering a microcontroller for your system’s hardware design, many factors must be considered. Although specifications and performance metrics are important, they only tell part of the story.

If you’ve ever wanted to program a microcontroller “in the cloud,” you might want to head over to Inventor Town, an online IDE that allows you to write and compile firmware for the MSP430 series of ...

Renesas will provide the "Embedded Target for RH850 Multicore" updated model-based development environment starting in the fall of 2018. In preparation for that release, Renesas will be presenting a ...