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“Cost still rules applications,” said Ross Bannatyne, Marketing Director at Silicon Laboratories, a supplier of 8051-based MCUs. “If 8-bit MCUs solve problems, why use more expensive 32-bit chips?” Newer .... |
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As a youngster I enjoyed wiring up circuits with knife switches, lamps, buzzers and large dry cells. While in high school I made frequent trips to surplus-electronics .... |
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More times than designers might like to admit, they wish for just one more I/O pin on a microcontroller. Three chip-to-chip serial buses can help overcome I/O pin limits. The following information provides .... |
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Years ago, designers involved with high-performance computer systems realized the parallel-bus structures found in most computers had run their course. New computer systems, such as those based on VME64x, .... |
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Several emerging trends promise to shape the future direction of embedded system design for rugged, high-performance defense and aerospace applications. These include the new VPX backplane architecture, .... |
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Rotary shaft encoders convert an angular position into an electrical quantity or digital code that a computer can use to determine the location of a connected object. Encoders come in two varieties – .... |
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Most engineers understand that equipment cannot use Ethernet communications to accurately synchronize events at distant locations. To address this problem, the IEEE has released a time-synchronization .... |
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When IBM introduced its PC-AT desktop computer in 1984, few engineers would have predicted the popularity of the Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) bus used to expand the computer’s memory and I/O functions. .... |
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When you start a design that incorporates a microcontroller or DSP chip, take a close look at development or evaluation boards from thirdparty suppliers. Often, their boards provide more capabilities .... |
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The best way to build a small, secure system is with a one-chip MCU that provides a security bit. But, a security bit can cause a problem: If a system exhibits strange behavior, the vendor may .... |
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