Chandler, Ariz. — Microchip Technology announced eight members of the PIC24F 16-bit microcontroller family, which extend the line into smaller 28- and 44-pin packages with 16 to 64 Kbytes of Flash ...

Eight-pin microcontrollers offer numerous peripheral features. However, the maximum number of I/O pins available is often limited to six, since two pins would be required for the chip's power supply.

Atmel is filling a pin-count gap in its AVR microcontroller range. “We received requests for 14-pin AVR devices,” said AVR marketing director Jukka Eskelinen. “ATtiny24, 44 and 84 devices complement ...

Inputting multiple bits of information using a single entry pin of a microcontroller without the complexity of UARTs can prove useful. Such a scheme could allow scanning of a keyboard, mode switches, ...

SAN JOSE, Calif., July 12 (UPI) -- Amtel Wednesday released a set of 14- and 16-pin microcontrollers that offer increased performance or lower power consumption, depending on design goals. Amtel said ...

SAN JOSE, USA: Atmel Corporation launched its new picoPower AVR ATtiny10, with 1K bytes of programmable flash memory, and 32 bytes of internal SRAM. With upto 12 MIPS of processing throughput, 8-bit A ...

Atmel has introduced a 6-pin microcontroller. The 8bit AVR ATtiny10 has 1kbyte of flash and 32byte of SRAM in a 2x3mm SOT-23 package. Performance is claimed to be up to 12MIPS, and peripherals include ...

Often, goods are damaged in transit due to mechanical shock or vibration. Unfortunately, the damage is not always visible upon delivery, resulting in disputes between the shipper and its customers ...

[J8g8j] has been playing around with an old cellphone. He wanted to control it using a microcontroller but since there’s 24 buttons he wasn’t thrilled about hooking up a couple dozen relays to do the ...