2016 was a great year for Open Hardware. The Open Source Hardware Association released their certification program, and late in the year, a few silicon wizards met in Mountain View to show off the ...

nRF52840 doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue.

Let’s say you’re working on a project, and you need a microcontroller. Which chip do you reach for? Probably the one you’re most familiar with, or at least the one whose programmer is hiding away in a ...

There are quite a few microcontroller options on the market, from Arduino and Raspberry Pi to Espressif’s ESP32 platform. Personally, I'm not too fussed about Arduino or Raspberry Pi—here’s why my ...

Texas Instruments says its very, very, very small microcontroller is suitable for devices such as electric toothbrushes, stylus pens and wearables. Omar Gallaga has covered technology, digital culture ...

Characteristics and contrasts with microprocessors. Hints on selecting and deploying microcontrollers. What might be on the horizon for microcontrollers, especially the competition between Von Neumann ...

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 ...

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 ...

Key growth opportunities in the long-distance wireless connection MCU market include: expanding IoT adoption, increasing deployment of 5G, demand for real-time data, rural connectivity investments, ...

What happened Security researchers at Paradigm Shift published a working exploit called usbliter8 that achieves arbitrary code execution inside the SecureROM of Apple’s A12 and A13 chips. SecureROM ...