Microchip Technology Inc., has introduced a new member of the company's 8- and 14-pin PIC16F61X 8-bit PIC microcontroller (MCU) family, targeting cost-effective general-purpose applications. The ...

For playing around with video signals and trying to create a an interesting microcontroller project, you can’t do better than the classic Pong. We’ve seen our share of microcontroller-based pong ...

The audio player was built using an SD memory card and the ATtinyX5 series 8-pin AVR microcontroller. The SD audio player is able to output a wide frequency range audio signal since the ...

Atmel is filling a pin-count gap in its AVR microcontroller range. “We received requests for 14-pin AVR devices,” said AVR marketing director Jukka Eskelinen. “ATtiny24, 44 and 84 devices complement ...

An inductor and 8-pin microcontroller are all that make up this barebones RFID tag. You might have done a double-take when first seeing the image above. After all, there’s nothing hooked up to the ...

New larger microcontroller includes 42 inputs, 32 outputs and two CAN 2.0B ports Provides design flexibility for mobile machinery requiring a large number of I/O connections in a concentrated space ...

SAN FRANCISCO: Microchip Technology Inc. said it filed a patent infringement lawsuit against ZiLOG Inc., alleging that a line of ZiLOG microcontroller chips infringes three Microchip patents. The ...

Atmel has introduced a 6-pin microcontroller. The 8bit AVR ATtiny10 has 1kbyte of flash and 32byte of SRAM in a 2x3mm SOT-23 package. Performance is claimed to be up to 12MIPS, and peripherals include ...