A typical high-end car of today makes use of 50 to 60 microcontrollers to perform tasks in all areas. Today's high-end microcontrollers in automotive applications are 32bit processors running at 50MHz ...

BOTHELL, Wash., September 19, 2002 – Cypress MicroSystems Inc., a subsidiary of Cypress Semiconductor (NYSE: CY), today announced a reference design that enables automotive engineers to build ...

San Francisco, Ca., Embedded Systems Conference, March 9, 2005 – STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a leading developer of system-on-chip (SOC) solutions for the wireless market, has today disclosed ...

For Christmas, [Lior] received a Baofeng UV5R radio. He didn’t have an amateur radio license, so he decided to use it as a police scanner. Since the schematics were available, he cracked it open and ...

Microchip's PIC10F32X incorporates a number of neat features like a Configurable Logic Cell, a Complementary Waveform Generator, and a Numerically Controlled Oscillator. The idea of incorporating ...

"Cute circuitry" is not a term you hear often – if at all – but it could be used to describe Chibitronics, which is a crafty merging of electronics and paper. The system combines familiar adhesive ...

An AVR chip is used to design a great programmable LED which provides fun and a good building block for playing with collective behaviors. An AVR chip is used to design a great programmable LED which ...

A new type of wireless sensor can run entirely off ambient energy and be reprogrammed in the field. It's a breakthrough for this type of device and could lead to major advances in wearable and ...

Most digital timers require a set of dip switches or rotary BCD encoders to preset their interval. But those techniques consume eight or more inputs from a microcontroller's (MCU's) I/O lines. To ...