Why should designers offload a microcontroller’s CPU? Performance and power consumption are the typical reasons for adding offload capability to a microcontroller. Traditionally, any hardware ...

The latest announcement of a strategic partnership with Renesas opened the door for RISC-V startup SiFive into the club of established semiconductor manufacturers. With its Series 7 processors, SiFive ...

This LSI is a high performance CMOS 8-bit microcontroller equipped with an 8-bit CPU nX-U8/100 and integrated with peripheral functions such as the UART, RC oscillation type A/D converter, and LCD ...

STMicroelectronics' new FIVE platform, an intelligent controller unit, combines a microcontroller core with a decision-processor block. You use the decision processor to accelerate rules-based ...

Renesas Technology has started full production of RX610 microcontrollers which are based on its new unifying RX CPU core. The RX CPU implements a complex instruction set computer (CISC) architecture ...

Big changes are happening in the microcontroller market. That statement alone should give pause for most design engineers and raise their level of skepticism. In the past, microcontrollers were a ...

We’re all familiar with overclocking desktop computers; a wonderful introduction to thermal design power and the necessities of a good CPU cooler. [Marcelo] wanted to see how far he could overclock a ...

Allegedly, the CPU core will be based on the open source RISC-V instruction set architecture, rather than an ARM based architecture such as ARMv6-M or the company’s latest ARMv8-M, which are more ...

Guest columnists Pradeep D, senior engineer, media processing at Ittiam Systems Pvt and Shyam Sadasivan, CPU product manager at ARM, believe that while intensive audio processing is usually ...