What is a Microcontroller?
A microcontroller is a device which integrates a number of the components of a microprocessor system onto a single chip (IC), with the following key components: The CPU core – ranging from simple 4-bit...
View ArticleTypes of Microcontroller
Microcontrollers can be classified on the basis of internal bus width, architecture, memory and instruction set. The below figure shows the various types of microcontroller. The 8, 16 and 32-bit...
View ArticleMemory in a Microcontroller
The amount of memory contained within a microcontroller varies between different microcontrollers. Some may not even have any integrated memory (eg. Hitachi 6503, now discontinued). However, most...
View ArticleMemory Architecture Microcontrollers
There are mainly two categories of processors, namely, Von-Neuman (or Princeton) architecture and Harvard Architecture. These two architecture differ in the way data and programs are stored and...
View ArticleEmbedded and External Memory Microcontrollers
EMBEDDED MICROCONTROLLERS When an embedded system has an microcontroller unit that has all the functional blocks (including program as well as data memory) available on a chip is called an embedded...
View ArticleDifference between a Microprocessor and a Microcontroller
Microprocessor is a single chip CPU, microcontroller contains, a CPU and much of the remaining circuitry of a complete microcomputer system in a single chip. Microcontroller includes RAM, ROM, serial...
View ArticleTop Five Most Counterfeited Semiconductor Types
The five most prevalent types of semiconductors reported as counterfeits that have widespread commercial and military use represent $169 billion in potential annual risk for the global electronics...
View ArticleFirst Transparent Computer Chip – TRRAM
A group of scientists at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) had fabricated a working computer chip that is almost completely clear– the first of its kind. The new technology is...
View ArticleON Semiconductor‘s CAT24C512 and CAT24M01 – New Serial EEPROM for Automotive,...
ON Semiconductor, a premier supplier of high performance silicon solutions for energy efficient electronics, has released new EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory) devices for...
View ArticleXilinx prepares FPGAs for Space Travel
Programmable logic vendor, Xilinx has increased the radiation-hardened specification of its space grade Virtex-5QV FPGA which is available with greater than 1Mrad(Si) total ionising dose (TID)...
View ArticleElpida starts Producing the World’s Smallest DDR3 DRAM Chip sized 25nm
Elpida Memory, a leading global supplier of dynamic random access memory, has kicked off production of 25nm DRAM products, and because of this, it can now brag about having and shipping the world’s...
View ArticleElpida starts shipments of next-gen 4-gigabit Wide IO and LPDDR3 Mobile RAMs
Elpida Memory just started shipping two of its next generation mobile RAM devices 4-gigabit Wide IO and LPDDR3 Mobile RAMs which are expected to boost the memory capacities of future tablets and...
View ArticleHistory of a Microcontroller
The first single chip microprocessor was the 4 bit Intel 4004 released in 1971, with the Intel 8008 and other more capable processors available over the next several years. These however all required...
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