[Andrew] picked up a handful of these big STC 8051 chips for a song and dance. The problem he has with them is the clunky VB6 programming software that only wants to run on a Windows box. He ...

The intel 8051 series 8bit microcontroller, originally introduced in 1980, remains popular and has had perhaps the longest product life of all such devices. It has become the industry standard for ...

Woodcliff Lake, NJ, USA and Villotta di Chions, Italy -- June 09 2015 -- Semiconductor intellectual property company CAST Inc. and silicon device programming leader SMH Technologies today have ...

If you’ve ever wanted to program a microcontroller “in the cloud,” you might want to head over to Inventor Town, an online IDE that allows you to write and compile firmware for the MSP430 ...

When students at Cornell University wanted to play Human Tetris (and ace a final project to boot), they taught a 20Mhz, 8-bit microcontroller how to follow their moves.

The C language is the most popular high-level programming language for microcontrollers, but the 8051 microcontroller is typically regarded as unfriendly to C compilers. One reason is the 8051’s ...

Silicon Labs' 8051-based EFM8 microcontrollers continue to deliver compact, low power solutions for a range of markets including IoT applications.

Microcontrollers continue to improve their networking capabilities. CMX's DHCP Client, one of these improvements, eliminates the need to use fixed IP addresses on a range of 8- and 16-bit ...

The 8051 was introduced by Intel 40 years ago, and CAST has been offering 8051-compatible microcontroller IP cores since 1997. These modern 8051s retain backward compatibility — preserving the ...

Di Sirio will illustrate to the seminar participants the strategies and best practices for programming high-performance and low-energy consumption microcontrollers.