Tag: Microcontroller
![Are Today’s MCUs Overdesigned? A Research Team Has The Answer Are Today’s MCUs Overdesigned? A Research Team Has The Answer](https://www.electronics-lab.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/15-common-app-result.jpeg)
Are Today’s MCUs Overdesigned? A Research Team Has The Answer
MCUs are called microcontrollers because they embed a CPU, memory and I/O units in one package. Apparently, today's MCUs are full of peripherals and in most cases they are not used in the application, and from an engineering point of view this is a waste of money and energy, but on the...
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Open-V, The Open Source RISC-V 32bit Microcontroller
Open source has finally arrived to microcontrollers. Based on RISC-V instruction set, a group of doctoral students at the Universidad Industrial de Santander in Colombia have been working on an open source 32-bit chip called "Open-V". Onchip, the startup of the research team,...
Continue Reading![A Mass Programming Bench for ATMega32u4 MCUs A Mass Programming Bench for ATMega32u4 MCUs](https://www.electronics-lab.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/prog_bench_close_m.jpg)
A Mass Programming Bench for ATMega32u4 MCUs
"limpkin" @ limpkin.fr wanted to program some thousand of MCUs so he decided to build his own programming bench. He writes: As you may know I started the Mooltipass offline password keeper project more than 2 years ago. Together with a team of volunteers from all over the globe I...
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SMART.IO, An Affordable Remote Control for Embedded Designs
Creating a smartphone application for your embedded products may be a high-cost process that consumes time and efforts. ImageCraft, a producer of high quality low cost embedded system tools, had developed “Smatr.IO” as a very cheap alternative solution that allows you to add a...
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PIC SD CARD DATA LOGGER
"pinko" has designed a simple datalogger based on a PIC microcontroller that logs data on a SD Card. He writes: Some time ago I decoded to make a simple general purpose Data Logger with the following parameters for the project. it should have very simple design that should be...
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Emulate an Apple ][ on an AVR Microcontroller
The Apple II personal computer, which stylized as Apple ][, is an 8-bit home computer and one of the first highly successful mass-produced microcomputer products. It was designed primarily by Steve Wozniak and developed with Steve Jobs. Apple ][ was introduced in 1977 at the West Coast...
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HiFive1, An Open-Source RISC-V Development Kit
By bringing the power of open-source and agile hardware design to the semiconductor industry, SiFive aims to increase the performance and efficiency of customized silicon chips with lower cost. The Freedom E310 (FE310) is the first member of the Freedom Everywhere SoCs family, a series...
Continue Reading![MAX11311 – The Powerful Configurable Mixed Signal I/O MAX11311 – The Powerful Configurable Mixed Signal I/O](https://www.electronics-lab.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Maxim-Integrated-1024x522.png)
MAX11311 – The Powerful Configurable Mixed Signal I/O
The MAX11311 is industry's first configurable high-voltage mixed-signal I/O that allows user-defined ADC, DAC, or GPIO functionality. Programming MAX11311 is very easy. A nice GUI tool helps to generate the right register values. If you want to make a universal signal processing board...
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