Electronic Design

Microcontroller Battery Monitor Circuit Needs Only One Pin

This circuit solved a problem encountered in developing a portable device with an ARM Cortex-M0 processor. The power supply consisted of two AA batteries (2 × 1.5 V), and I needed to signal the user ...
Electronic Design

Set DC-Motor Speed with Light-Controlled Microcontroller Circuit

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. This 8051 microcontroller-based control circuit adjusts the speed of a small permanent-magnet dc motor via photosensors ...
EDN

ZiLOG Offers In-Circuit Emulator Kit for Z8 Encore! 64K Family of 8-bit Microcontrollers

San Jose, Calif. — ZiLOG, Inc. is offering a high-end development tool that emulates its Z8 Encore! 64K series of 8-bit microcontrollers (MCUs). The In-Circuit Emulator (ICE) kit enables software ...
EDN

Microcontroller-Based Serial Port Interface (SPI®) Boot Circuit

This application note describes the operation of a general- purpose, microcontroller-based Serial Port Interface (SPI) boot circuit. This is a low cost solution for users who need to modify some of ...
Hackaday

How A Microcontroller Hiding In A USB Port Became An FPGA Hiding In The Same

When you think of microcontroller development, you probably picture either a breadboard with a chip or a USB-connected circuit board. But Tim Ansell pictured an ARM dev board that is almost completely ...
InfoWorld

Micro Python’s tiny circuits: Python variant targets microcontrollers

Slimmed-down version of Python, rebuilt from the ground up, is designed to run fast and lean on microcontroller hardware The Python programming language’s flexibility and ease-of-use have made it ...