Why should microcontroller (MCU) “bit size” matter to a system designer? After all, developers are looking for an MCU that does the job for a particular application at a reasonable price. Next on the ...

Microchip Technology Inc., a leading provider of microcontroller and analog semiconductors, has announced eight new members of the cost-effective PIC24F 16-bit microcontroller family, which extend the ...

Increasing competition from lower cost 32-bit microcontrollers has prompted suppliers to reposition their workhorse 16-bit MCUs. Renesas Technology is one of a number of MCU suppliers looking at ways ...

Cambridgeshire-based Cyan has put its second microcontroller into production. “Its all taped out and being made,” CEO Paul Johnson told EW. Announced in February and called eCOG1X, the 16-bit ...

Emulating older computers on microcontrollers has been a staple of retrocomputing for many years now, with most 8-bit and ...

A new family of microcontrollers (MCUs) —the PIC24FJ128GC010 -- is an analog system on chip that integrates an on-chip precision 16-bit ADC and 10 Msps 12-bit ADC, plus a DAC and dual operational ...

Developers using Mitsubishi Electric & Electronics USA's M16C microcontroller can now use Embedded C++ (EC++), courtesy of Tasking's M16C Software Development Toolset V2.1. The compiler in the toolset ...

Texas Instruments’ (TI) latest MSP430 microcontrollers utilize FRAM for code and data. The unified memory approach simplifies development since code space can be traded off for more data RAM. FRAM ...

Users of portable devices could soon be worrying less about recharging their batteries. NEC Electronics America Inc. Monday announced a line of 16-bit “all flash” microcontroller units (MCU), meant ...

Key Companies Covered in the 16-Bit Microcontroller Market Research are NXP, ROHM Semiconductor, Renesas Electronics, STMicroelectronics, Epson, Infineon, Maxim ...