As you may recall, in my previous column, I started to consider why the 30-year-old eight-bit 8051 microcontroller remains a valuable player in the embedded systems game. The days, months, and years ...

REDMOND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 31, 2003--Data I/O(R) Corporation (Nasdaq:DAIO), the leading provider of manual and automated programming systems today announced support for Flash-based ...

At the introduction of the 12,000 gate 32bit ARM Cortex M0 recently, an ARM spokesman told EW the M0 was close to the 10,000 gates normally occupied by the 8bit 8051 microcontroller. Inspired by this, ...

As electronics take on ever-increasing roles in automotive systems, greater scrutiny will be placed on those electronics that are employed in control systems. X-By-Wire systems, that is, steer- and/or ...

I need to select the brain of my upcoming robotics project. There will need to be a Raspberry Pi involved to do (at least) speech recognition. Professionally, I'm a c# programmer, so I wouldn't mind ...

San Jose, Calif. – STMicroelectronics and Philips Semiconductors have independently beefed up their lines of the 8051 class of 8-bit microcontrollers, suggesting that the market for this popular MCU ...

AUSTIN, Texas, August 23, 2005 – Silicon Laude (pronounced “laudee†) announces the availability of the world’s first, and only, radiation-hardened and radiation-tolerant MCS8051 ...

For years it was a given that it was impossible to run a Linux based operating system on a less powerful computer whose architecture lacked a memory management unit. There were projects such as ...