Implementing configurable logic blocks on a microcontroller IC is by now an established practice. These blocks in the past have been implemented either as register-configured fixed logic or as an ...

Join Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Staff Writer Dan Maloney as they take a look at the week’s top stories, taken straight off the pages of Hackaday. What happens when you stuff modern parts into ...

As computer systems become more and more ubiquitous in everyday items, the workings of those items will require some sort of digital controlling. Controllers that once handled large mechanical systems ...

Multi-CPU, 8051 instruction-set-compatible parallel controller executes up to 300 MIPS in Actel Axcelerator FPGA and features concurrent real-time monitoring/debugging of all 9 CPUs via JTAG using ...

The Internet of Things is eating everything alive, and the world wants to know: how do you make a small, battery-powered, WiFi-enabled microcontroller device? This is a surprisingly difficult problem.

DIY: Why spend nearly half a million dollars on a used supercomputer when you can build your own miniature version at home? That's exactly what one YouTuber recently did and the end result is quite ...