The age of ARM microcontrollers for the electronics hobbyist is upon us, and luckily there are a few breadboard-friendly microcontrollers available in a DIP package. One of these chips is NXP’s ...

Imagine you’re stuck on a desert island, hundreds of miles away from the nearest person, and you finally have time to finish that project you’re working on. You have a single microcontroller, but ...

An increasing number of vendors offer 32-bit microcontrollers based on ARM® Cortex®-M processors, and at the same time, there are also new development environments introduced for these microcontroller ...

Based upon a drag & drop concept, microCommander reduces the time involved in programming microcontrollers from man-months to man-minutes while eliminating programming errors. It enables engineers to ...

When creating microcontroller firmware, you often need to work with data arrays. Tables make easy work of data arrays, such as those for digital-code transformation, correction for sensor linearity, ...

Apple has introduced Embedded Swift, a streamlined adaptation of its Swift programming language designed just for microcontrollers. The current beta version supports multiple microcontrollers ranging ...

Microcontroller programming is useful but complicated for makers. New tools can make it accessible to all When I designed the curriculum for my middle school Physical Computing course, I envisioned ...

1. P1.0 to P1.7: I/O pins. 2. RST: Reset pin. 3. P3.0 to P3.7: I/O pins. 4. XTAL1, XTAL2: Oscillator pins. 5. GND: Ground. 6. P2.0 to P2.7: I/O pins. 7. PSEN: Program ...