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 ...

Many designers using 8-bit 8051 microcontrollers as the core of their systems face a challenge when updating the performance of their designs. Historically, performance upgrades have often ...

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, ...

• M8051 is the classic 12-cycle implementation the 8051 architecture • M8052 is an enhanced variant of the M8051 with more memory and a 3rd timer “The M8051 has been one of our most popular lines of ...

One of the most popular processors has been made available as a licensable core by IPextreme, following an agreement with Mentor Graphics. The M8051 family consists of four 8051 compatible cores: the ...

DALLAS — Dallas Semiconductor here has rolled out a new high-speed 8051-compatible microcontroller, capable of achieving peak processing performance of 50 million instructions per second (MIPS) ...