One of the fun things about “old school” computers is that it was fairly easy to get kids into programming them. The old Basic interpreters were pretty forgiving, and you could do some clever things ...

Emulating older computers on microcontrollers has been a staple of retrocomputing for many years now, with most 8-bit and ...

Discover Arduino Uno Q, a hybrid Linux plus microcontroller board with four Cortex A53 cores, so you get precise control and ...

Texas Instruments says it has shrunk the size of the smallest microcontroller unit in its industry with a new MCU the size of a black pepper flake. The MCU packaging is only 1.38 square millimeters in ...

Many microcontrollers have built-in ADCs (analog-to-digital converters), which means you can use a single device to both digitize analog signals and manipulate the results. Once the ADC digitizes a ...

STMicroelectronics. (STM) was in the spotlight on Tuesday as it unveiled a new 18 nanometer microcontroller, and some new tools for artificial intelligence. Shares fell 1.9% in premarket trading.

Selecting the right microcontroller for a product can be a daunting task. Not only are there a number of technical features to consider, there are also business case issues such as cost and lead-times ...

If you thought the Raspberry Pi's chip was dinky, well, get a load of the nattily named Texas Instruments MSPM0C1104, said to the world's smallest microcontroller or MCU and measuring a mere 1.38 mm².

Most smart gadgets still need the internet for anything that smells like intelligence, since the most powerful models live in the cloud. Edge device companies want the thinking to happen on the device ...