While DSPs are the primary controllers in uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) with power-factor correction (PFC), ac generation and battery management, microcontrollers serve secondary functions for ...

As seen in earlier articles, the only two possible states of information for digital electronics are true and false. Be it an electric current, a numeric datum, or a variable of any kind, the system’s ...

Fujitsu Microelectronics has targeted its latest 16- and 32-bit microcontrollers at digital consumer products with power requirements as low as 1 milliamp per megahertz. The 32-bit MB91F233 and ...

What are Microprocessors and Microcontrollers? Microprocessors and microcontrollers are essential components of an embedded system. These are single-chip processors that accelerate the computing ...

Originally designed for use in the PC industry, the Universal Serial Bus (USB) is rapidly finding an even bigger market in the embedded world. There, USB connectors are taking up residence on ...

According to Texas Instruments, it has developed the smallest microcontroller available, expanding the company's Arm Cortex-M0+ MSPM0 MCU portfolio. The 1.38-mm 2 wafer chip-scale packaged (WCSP) ...