Texas Instruments has announced a new family in its MSP430 ultra-low power 16-bit RISC microcontroller product line that provides twice the...

Texas Instruments has announced a new family in its MSP430 ultra-low power 16-bit RISC microcontroller product line that provides twice the processing performance (16 RISC MIPS) and half the stand-by power consumption compared to earlier devices. http://microcontroller.com/news/ti_msp4302xx.asp - Bill Giovino Executive Editor http://Microcontroller.com

I'm trying to select a microcontroller for an application, and having little luck sifting through the masses of information on the web. I...

I'm trying to select a microcontroller for an application, and having little luck sifting through the masses of information on the web. I need: 1) Two async serial ports, capable of running at 9600 BPS. I'd greatly prefer this to be in hardware; bit-banging is too much work, and hard to do in realtime with other things going on. RS-232 drivers are not necessary, but the ability to accept i...

Can you please advise a microcontroller? It looks like nobody cares to list devices from competing manufacturers in the same document,...

Can you please advise a microcontroller? It looks like nobody cares to list devices from competing manufacturers in the same document, providing both prices and features. There is a project, I need to process data of frequencies 0.5-40 Hz. FFT and such. For FFT, the array will be 2^N. FFT will be used to eliminate the "high"-frequency noice (50+ Hz). (If you think that something would be ...

Hello everyone, I am new to avr microcontroller.Which is good online tutorial for AVR micro

Hello everyone, I am new to avr microcontroller.Which is good online tutorial for AVR micro

How do you measure the difference in phase of two AC signals using an A/D type microcontroller? Can't think of any concrete logic for doing...

How do you measure the difference in phase of two AC signals using an A/D type microcontroller? Can't think of any concrete logic for doing this. Any one who has implemented this? Does anyone have any good links or material for reading up on similar topics. I am working on a Holtek 46 series. Thanks in advance

http://microcontroller.com/news/Atmel_smallest.asp Teeny tiny uDFN package that is only 2mm on each side. Bill Giovino Executive...

http://microcontroller.com/news/Atmel_smallest.asp Teeny tiny uDFN package that is only 2mm on each side. Bill Giovino Executive Editor http://Microcontroller.com Follow Me: http://twitter.com/BGiovino

They're not kludged serial interfaces, they've got USB 2.0 as native peripherals. There's also a 10-bit...

They're not kludged serial interfaces, they've got USB 2.0 as native peripherals. There's also a 10-bit A/D. http://Microcontroller.com/news/Microchip_PIC18_USB2.asp Regards, Bill Giovino Executive Editor http://Microcontroller.com

From: "Jay Maynard" Subject: Which microcontroller do I need? Date: Saturday, July 28, 2007 10:19 AM I'm trying to select a...

From: "Jay Maynard" Subject: Which microcontroller do I need? Date: Saturday, July 28, 2007 10:19 AM I'm trying to select a microcontroller for an application, and having little luck sifting through the masses of information on the web. I need: 1) Two async serial ports, capable of running at 9600 BPS. I'd greatly prefer this to be in hardware; bit-banging is t

I am student of computer science. i have good skill of programming in C/C++. I want to start learning Microcontroller Programming. What is the...

I am student of computer science. i have good skill of programming in C/C++. I want to start learning Microcontroller Programming. What is the pre-requisite to get started and what kind tools (Software and Hardware) i need to get a start.

Hello - I'm looking for a small microcontroller that has an onboard CAN controller. If it also had an onboard CAN transciever that would be...

Hello - I'm looking for a small microcontroller that has an onboard CAN controller. If it also had an onboard CAN transciever that would be great - but I've yet to see that in any microcontroller so I'm not getting my hopes up. The problem I've run into is that I'm working on a very small board that needs a CAN interface. Right now I'm planning on using an Atmel AT90CAN128 but I'm early ...

I have always liked to distinguish a microprocessor from a microcontroller based on whether or not there are integrated peripherals on the same...

I have always liked to distinguish a microprocessor from a microcontroller based on whether or not there are integrated peripherals on the same chip or just a CPU. There are some companies that seem to refer to what I traditionally thought of as microcontrollers by the term du jour, System-on-a-Chip. Are these two terms synonymous? Furthermore, sometimes these SOCs are referred to in the sam...

I'm trying to choose a microcontroller for a pretty simple control system. It seems like there are about a million models available, so I'm...

I'm trying to choose a microcontroller for a pretty simple control system. It seems like there are about a million models available, so I'm hoping for some help in narrowing down my choices. I've been using the Atmel AT89LP2052, which would be fine except that it doesn't have A/D---it only has a voltage comparator. The device has to be easy to use in a prototype. I guess that means i...

Can you suggest me some real application of MC68HC11 microcontroller? I need to know notorius industrial products that have this...

Can you suggest me some real application of MC68HC11 microcontroller? I need to know notorius industrial products that have this microcontroller (for example fuel injection, motor application,...) Thanks

http://microcontroller.com/news/microchip_enhanced_midrange_cores.asp 32MHz operation and 20nA sleep current. Article contains a product...

http://microcontroller.com/news/microchip_enhanced_midrange_cores.asp 32MHz operation and 20nA sleep current. Article contains a product roadmap and a selection guide. Bill Giovino Executive Editor http://Microcontroller.com

Hello, I just got a MC9S12NE64 microcontoller and a development board, and I've been trying to access my microcontroller through...

Hello, I just got a MC9S12NE64 microcontoller and a development board, and I've been trying to access my microcontroller through the hyperterminal on my computer but have been having a really hard time. I couldn't find any serial port driver files for this MCU, but had some for a MC9S12C32 which i tried to modify to use with my MCU... my code compiles on codewarrior and loads into my MCU but....

Hi there, I am in the process of selecting a general purpose microcontroller for several new developments. There are several uCs with USB,...

Hi there, I am in the process of selecting a general purpose microcontroller for several new developments. There are several uCs with USB, but how to select the best one? I guess some of you already have some hands-on experiences. Apart from the USB port, for easy interfacing to a PC, it is important that it is low cost in quantities of 10s to 100s. A requirement is ease of programming,...

Hi I am currently using LPC Flash utility to download .hex file to lpc2138 microcontroller. but I want to make my own software in VC++ to...

Hi I am currently using LPC Flash utility to download .hex file to lpc2138 microcontroller. but I want to make my own software in VC++ to download the hex file. can I include LPC Flash utility in VC++ program in any way.. is there any other source code API, which I can use in VC++ to download the hex file to lpc2138 microcontroller. waiting for replies thanks -debabrata Adya Syst...

Hello, I wanted to inquire if someone else has seen this kind of phenomenon before... I have a design (currently implemented in an FPGA)...

Hello, I wanted to inquire if someone else has seen this kind of phenomenon before... I have a design (currently implemented in an FPGA) which drives a CompactFlash from a microcontroller, specifically a T80 (Z80 clone) from opencores.org, with my own firmware. The clock frequency is 25 MHz. The weird part is that it reads all cards fine, but when it comes to writing I get some extr...

http://microcontroller.com/EmbeddedSystems.asp?c=29 Hey, these are real pictures from real offices! Do you have alternate captions for these...

http://microcontroller.com/EmbeddedSystems.asp?c=29 Hey, these are real pictures from real offices! Do you have alternate captions for these pictures? Reply to this post & tell us about it! - Bill Giovino Executive Editor http://Microcontroller.com

Hi there, I've written a programme, to communicates with a microcontroller, but sometimes there is no reaction when I send the initial byte....

Hi there, I've written a programme, to communicates with a microcontroller, but sometimes there is no reaction when I send the initial byte. I'm working under Suse Linux 9.2 prof. and as I know from a windows programme this problem shouldn't be caused by the microcontroller. As it always works with this programme under windows. So could it be, that when there is a failure at the microcon...