A new family of 8-bit, low-voltage, embedded controllers is said to achieve unsurpassed 8-bit performance due to a 6X-accelerated 80C51-compatible core. Manufactured using a 0.35-µm embedded flash ...

Microcontrollers have come a long way, with 8-bit MCUs demonstrating tremendous resilience and application innovations through advances in memory, power consumption, packaging, and peripherals. 8-bit ...

MagnaChip Semiconductor has begun limited sampling of an 8-bit smartcard controller, part of an overall product line that includes six 8-bit offerings, ranging from a device with 4 kbytes of EEPROM ...

Eight-bit microcontrollers-called that because they operate on data eight bits at a time-continue to dominate the microcontroller market, although 32-bit controllers are showing faster market growth.

Mitsubishi's M16C/26 microcontroller is the first of a new series of flash-based controllers targeting applications that would benefit by moving from an 8-bit to a 16-bit microcontroller. The flash ...

Will Strauss, president of Forward Concepts, said Freescale's move is part of a larger trend among microcontroller and DSP vendors to protect investments in software development by offering compatible ...