Almost all AVR microcontrollers have built-in Electrically Eraseable Programmable Read Only Memory (EEPROM).The advantage of EEPROM is that even when the microcontroller is turned off, data stored in ...

For Christmas, [Lior] received a Baofeng UV5R radio. He didn’t have an amateur radio license, so he decided to use it as a police scanner. Since the schematics were available, he cracked it open and ...

East Kilbride, Scotland Two dominant driving forces for the development of 8- and 16-bit microcontrollers are memory size and cost–purchasers are demanding more memory for less cost. Generally, ...

Expanding the Analog EEPROM AE2 product line are seven microcontroller supervisors that integrate 2 Kb of EEPROM. Supervisor-threshold voltages are available at 4.5V, 4.25V, 4V, 3V, 2.85V, and 2.55V.

Microcontrollers existed before the Arduino, and a device that anyone could program and blink an LED existed before the first Maker Faire. This might come as a surprise to some, but for others PICs ...

Microchip's PIC10F32X (Fig. 1) represents a major step forward for microcontrollers. It includes a number of neat new features but one that stands out is the Configurable Logic Cell (CLC). I ...

A new type of wireless sensor can run entirely off ambient energy and be reprogrammed in the field. It's a breakthrough for this type of device and could lead to major advances in wearable and ...