This course introduces students to the architecture and design of Microcontrollers (MCUs), which are small processors used in a myriad of products. The main MCU components of the processor, memory, ...

As computer systems become more and more ubiquitous in everyday items, the workings of those items will require some sort of digital controlling. Controllers that once handled large mechanical systems ...

Arithmetic logic unit (ALU), which performs computation. Registers needed for the basic operation of the CPU, such as the program counter (PC), stack pointer (SP), and status register (SR). Further ...

Uppsala, Sweden—December 10, 2014—IAR Systems®, the world-leading vendor of development tools for embedded systems, today announces that the company has partnered up with the semiconductor IP provider ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., October 6, 2003 - Actel Corporation (Nasdaq: ACTL) today introduced the new Platform8051, an integrated platform solution initially consisting of six popular pre-integrated and ...

At the same show it revealed a proprietary 32bit microcontroller, the FT900, FTDI announced an 8bit microcontroller which executes the long-established 8051 instruction set. Called FT51, it executes ...