Starting on Monday, July 25 and running through July 29, Design News will present the free course, How to Select the Right Microcontroller for an Application. Each class runs an hour, beginning at ...

When designing a system, one of the most important design decisions is choosing what voltage domain(s) to use. Some voltage domains, such as 5 V, are good for noisy and harsh operating environments ...

Editor's Note: This three-part article is abstracted from Chapter 7 of the book Embedded Hardware Know It All with the kind permission of the publisher. See also Part 1. The book features a “360 ...

The level of competition in the microcontroller market has never been higher. Suppliers are relying more than ever on the strength of the distribution channel to secure design wins in this key market ...

Inside any electronic device, from an old television remote to a global positioning system, there will be at least one microcontroller unit (MCU) and, in many cases, several. MCUs are used in ...

This EDN Video Design Idea, presented by Dhananjay V Gadre, assistant professor in the electronics and communications engineering division of the Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology in New Delhi, ...

This design idea applies to ionizer machines that must have reliable testing of integrated circuits to ensure high-quality production. How to implement a microcontroller to monitor ac-motor speed.

Today’s marketplace is getting heavily disrupted by the current semiconductor chip shortage that has hampered our manufacturing production lines. This is evident by the limited supply of products ...

The 87C551Mx2 microcontroller family breaks the 64 KB barrier for 8-bit 80C51 controllers by supporting up to 16 MB of on-chip linear addressable memory. The device is the first in a line of large ...