Why should designers offload a microcontroller’s CPU? Performance and power consumption are the typical reasons for adding offload capability to a microcontroller. Traditionally, any hardware ...

The latest announcement of a strategic partnership with Renesas opened the door for RISC-V startup SiFive into the club of established semiconductor manufacturers. With its Series 7 processors, SiFive ...

This LSI is a high performance CMOS 8-bit microcontroller equipped with an 8-bit CPU nX-U8/100 and integrated with peripheral functions such as the UART, RC oscillation type A/D converter, and LCD ...

STMicroelectronics' new FIVE platform, an intelligent controller unit, combines a microcontroller core with a decision-processor block. You use the decision processor to accelerate rules-based ...

We’re all familiar with overclocking desktop computers; a wonderful introduction to thermal design power and the necessities of a good CPU cooler. [Marcelo] wanted to see how far he could overclock a ...

Big changes are happening in the microcontroller market. That statement alone should give pause for most design engineers and raise their level of skepticism. In the past, microcontrollers were a ...

The xcc700 is a very small, lightweight C compiler designed specifically for the ESP32 microcontroller. It is like a mini ...

Renesas Technology has started full production of RX610 microcontrollers which are based on its new unifying RX CPU core. The RX CPU implements a complex instruction set computer (CISC) architecture ...

Allegedly, the CPU core will be based on the open source RISC-V instruction set architecture, rather than an ARM based architecture such as ARMv6-M or the company’s latest ARMv8-M, which are more ...