For the lowest power consumption, MCUs are still preferred, and for high performance, MPUs are dominant. But that’s changing.

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Microcontroller units (MCUs) are single-chip computers optimized for performing embedded computing tasks like controlling a coffee machine or a medical device, an industrial robot, or an electric ...

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Abstract: This paper presents aspects concerning a possible unfolding manner of laboratory hours at a microcontrollers course for students who attend applied electronics or other related ...

College of Electronic Information Engineering, Inner Mongolia University, Huhhot, China. Based on the concept of OBE education, for the problems of highly overlapping contents and similar cultivation ...

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 perhaps ...

Texas Instruments says it has shrunk the size of the smallest microcontroller unit in its industry with a new MCU the size of a black pepper flake. The MCU packaging is only 1.38 square millimeters in ...

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Texas Instruments has officially unveiled the MSPM0C1104, which it claims to be the world's smallest microcontroller. This remarkable device measures a mere 1.38 mm², which is only slightly larger ...