The need for timing in embedded programming often exceeds the small number of available hardware timers in microcontrollers. For example, the Microchip PIC16F84A has one timer, but you can create as ...

Microcontrollers now find use in every walk of life. Their peripherals vary from the general-purpose I/Os to the USB interface, making them versatile for a range of products. Timing is one key part of ...

Figure 1 shows a simple timer similiar to those often included on-chip within a microcontroller. You could build something similar from a couple of 74HC161 counters or a programmable logic device. The ...

Adding to the tinyAVR microcontroller family, the 20-pin ATtiny261, ATtiny461, and ATtiny861 pair 2 KB, 4 KB, and 8 KB of flash memory, respectively, with high-speed timers. Each operates at 20 ...

Most digital timers require a set of dip switches or rotary BCD encoders to preset their interval. But those techniques consume eight or more inputs from a microcontroller's ...

Toshiba adds Arm (R) Cortex (R)-M4-based microcontrollers for audio visual and industrial equipment that achieve high-speed data processing.

Renesas Electronics has introduced the new 16-bit RL78/L23 microcontroller (MCU) group, expanding its low-power RL78 family.

It’s time to go back a few decades to look at the first commercially available microcontroller, the Texas Instruments TMS1000. Imagine A World Without Microcontrollers ...

In this case, you can see that the switching time is much faster, and for the latest devices, the signal we are trying to deal with can be faster than the noise signal. Therefore, noise has become a ...