I got back from the SAE (society of automotive engineers) Convergence show a couple weeks ago. As a former auto engineer, I really miss working on cars. I had meetings with Freescale, Atmel and ...

One of the joys of writing for Hackaday comes in following the world of new semiconductor devices, spotting interesting ones ...

One of the interesting areas in the world of new parts recently has been at the lower end of the microcontroller market. Not because the devices there have new capabilities or are especially fast, but ...

When I was in graduate school 10 years ago, a controls group proposed to the power-electronics center to use an advanced microcontroller in power supplies. This controller was to implement a new ...

Provided with encryption function and high degree of tamper resistance, enabling implementation of highly secure management Tokyo, June 21, 2005 −− Renesas Technology Corp. today announced the ...