The age of ARM microcontrollers for the electronics hobbyist is upon us, and luckily there are a few breadboard-friendly microcontrollers available in a DIP package. One of these chips is NXP’s ...

NXP Semiconductors N.V. today announced its LPC1200 Industrial Control Series featuring the ARM® Cortex™-M0 processor. The LPC1200 extends NXP’s 32-bit ARM microcontroller continuum and targets a wide ...

Rotary encoders are pretty interesting pieces of technology. They’re a solid way to accurately measure rotation including the direction. [David] recently wrote some software to handle these input ...

Eight-pin microcontrollers offer numerous peripheral features. However, the maximum number of I/O pins available is often limited to six, since two pins would be required for the chip's power supply.

Atmel® Corporation , a leader in microcontroller and touch technology solutions, announced sampling of the Atmel SAM4S16, the first device in the Cortex™-M4 processor-based family, to lead customers.