The modern vehicular system has a large number of microcontrollers which control functions like air bags, ABS, Driver Drowsiness Detection (DDD), infotainment, and many more. These applications ...

Our cars are filled with a dizzying number of microcontrollers (MCUs), chips that do anything from lowering the windows to absolutely nothing while they wait to deploy the airbags. You find (if you ...

Flash memory-based microcontrollers have changed the landscape for embedded applications. Programming speeds and access times have improved. Flash reliability is no longer a concern in all but the ...

East Kilbride, Scotland Two dominant driving forces for the development of 8- and 16-bit microcontrollers are memory size and cost–purchasers are demanding more memory for less cost. Generally, ...

Researchers Sean Cross and Dr. Andrew Huang demonstrated yesterday at the Chaos Communication Congress that they could write arbitrary code onto various flash-based SD memory cards. Researchers ...

Selecting the right amount of flash memory for an embedded application can be challenging. You want to make sure that you have enough memory to protect for future features, firmware updates, and more.

Based on the 32-Bit ARM-7 general-purpose microprocessor, the TMS470 series of microcontrollers contains seven devices with flash memory sizes from 64 KB to 1 MB. A high-end timer (HET) allows ...

Macronix International, a leading integrated device manufacturer in the non-volatile memory (NVM) market, announced that STMicroelectronics (ST) is using Macronix OctaBus flash memory for several ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Renesas Technology America, Inc. today announced the E8a emulator, an ultra-small, low-priced, environment-friendly on-chip debugging emulator for developing ...

US-based flash memory maker Spansion has announced that it has agreed to a deal to buy Fujitsu Semiconductor’s microcontroller and analog business for $175 million. The arrangement includes a $100 ...

We hope that some of our readers are currently at this year’s Chaos Communication Congress (schedule can be found here and live streams here), as many interesting talks are happening. One of them ...

Incorporating high-performance SH-2A CPU core and offering approximately fourfold increase in performance over previous Renesas Technology product, enabling implementation of high-precision, real-time ...