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The article offers information on Micro80 Gen2 thermal sensor from ULIS, SimpleLink dual-band CC1350 wireless microcontroller (MCU) from Texas Instruments (TI) and Explorer 16/32 Development Board from Microchip Technology.

The article offers a preview of the TMCM-1043-KIT by Trinamic Motion Control for PC-based motor drive development, the LT3669 COM1/COM2/COM3 industrial transceiver by Linear Technology, and the ADuCM320 industrial and automation microcontroller by the Analog Devices company.

The article discusses the innovation and trends in the embedded design system. It cites the high pace of innovation in microcontrollers and field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) which allows opportunities to create multifunctional electronics. It highlights the emergence new three-dimensional (3D) chip technologies which are expected to boost the trend as the embedded design sector is looking for smart solutions in various industries such as automobile, consumer electronics and aerospace.

The article discusses how microcontrollers are becoming capable of handling advanced applications and how debugging firmware has became complex for several developers and also mentions that Serial Wire Viewer (SWV) is part of ARM Coresight debugger technology.

The article discusses ways on how to attain functional safety standards and safety certification for mcirocontroller-based designs in industrial applications.

The article discusses the issues which lead to a confusion affecting a contemporary multicore taxonomy, including classifications of processor and the use of the term multicore. The classification process permits various versions of each type of processor to follow the same techniques on implementation, without confusion on its target. Moreover, it explains that the coverage of multicore should go beyond digital media, networking, and application servers.

The article discusses the hardware-based solutions being developed by silicon vendors to simplify embedded system security. It stresses that securing embedded systems from hackers is rapidly becoming a necessity for many organizations due to the increase in cloning and intellectual-property theft. Moreover, it suggests that engineers should identify the level and source of potential threat to their systems.

The article discusses the use of statistical profiling to find out the amount of central processing unit (CPU) time being used on a given function and the functions being executed by microcontrollers.

An excerpt from the article "ST & Arduino to expand 'maker' access to STM32 MCUs & sensors" is presented which focuses on the plan by open-source board maker STMicroelectronics NV and semiconductor company Arduino to expand the access to STM32 microcontrollers (MCUs) & sensors.

The article focuses on the use and implementation of the ATtiny2313A automatic voltage regulator (AVR) microcontroller for reading the signals and speed of quadrature encoder.

The article offers information on Laser Bee 8-bit microcontroller (MCU) from Silicon Laboratories Inc., a company that develops tools and software for Internet of Things.

The article reports that the ultra-low power microcontroller (MCU) Apollo MCU developed by electronic manufacturer Ambiq Micro has achieved a score on the Ultra-low power benchmark (ULPBench) of nonprofit organization Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium (EEMBC) in 2015.

The article features the Maxim Integrated MAX32600 microcontroller.

The article offers briefs information on the 32-bit MSP432 microcontrollers from Texas Instruments.

The article offers brief information on the xCORE multicore microcontrollers (MCU) from Xmos.

The article discusses the release of the SimpleLink ultra-low power wireless microcontrollers from Texas Instruments Inc.

The article offers brief information on the ARM Cortex-M4F microcontrollers from Ambiq Micro.

The article offers a preview of the Texas Instruments MSP430 FRAM microcontroller featuring EnergyTrace++ for ultra-low power industrial sensor, automation and device connectivity applications.

The article offers brief information on several STM32 microcontrollers including the STM32 Nucleo prototyping/development boards which supports Arduino conncetivity, the STM32Cube software platform, and the STM32CubeMX graphical configurator.

The article discusses the design of solid state circuit breaker for microcontrollers (MCU) intended to control power to devices such as motors, actuators, or other electronic subsystems. It mentions the use of two bipolar transistors, a P-channel metal oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFET), and a handful of passive components for the design. The main disadvantage of the circuit compared to integrated hot-swap controllers is also outlined.

The article previews the VDE certified IEC 60730 self-test library for XMC1000 and XMC4000 range of industrial 32-bit microcontrollers from Infineon AG.

The article provides a design idea and solution for linking a 4x3 matrix keyboard to a microcontroller (MCU) through input/output (I/O) pins. It mentions its application of a scanning algorithm for identifying pressed keys. An overview of utilizing I/O expanders and an analog pin for indicating the voltage and defining which key is pressed is also presented.

The article offers information on TI-Innovator Hub, a microcontroller system that extends the functionality of graphic calculators, for STEM education from Texas Instruments Inc.

The article offers brief information on the CEC1302 microcontroller with hardware-based cryptography from Microchip Technology.

The article evaluates MCU (Microcontroller unit) with low leakage transimpedance amplifier (TIA) from Texas Instruments Inc., outlining its features.

The article evaluates the RX24T group of micro-controller units (MCUs) offered by Renesas Electronics Corp.

The article evaluates the MPLAB Xpress IDE PIC microcontroller from microcontroller memory manufacturer Microchip Technology Inc.

The article offers tips on how to use an on-chip unused synchronous serial port to generate pulse-width-modulation (PWM) signals and convert them to analog signal. It notes that a designer can use the microcontroller's baudrate generator and parallel-to-serial-converter blocks to generate bit patterns to form a 256-bit PWM pattern. It further discusses the procedure of how to solve design problems.

The article discusses the emulation of serial-peripheral-interface (SPI) signals with a digital-IO card. It notes that the addition of an Agilent 34950A 64-bit digital-I/O card formed the basis of a system that could provide both SPI bus and a simple parallel bus. It further discusses the advantages of the approach such as cabling flexibility and multiple slaves.

The article offers information on the design idea that aims to convert sensor data into human-understandable format. It notes that the standard approach is to use a high-level language and a compiler. However, compilers produce machine code that occupies more memory, runs slower, and is costly. The better option, it states, is to use assembly language with an equation that will let users perform the calculations with integer arithmetic only and select a microcontroller with less memory.

The article offers information on how to convert signals to proper logic levels in the electronic industries in Europe. A signal conditioner needs to have high input impedance since a voltage divider can influence the device under test. The output signals of a signal conditioner must match the logic levels of the microcontroller. Since most op amps have differential-input-voltage, a power-supply voltage with a higher voltage is needed.

The article offers steps in creating LPC2138 ARM Inc.-based microcontroller. With an input/output (I/O) approach through Microsoft Excel program, first step is to enter all the pins in ascending order. It cites columns C to F which depicts the functions and their corresponding pin numbers. Next is top insert the data-validation feature in each connected cell in Column B. This set-up produce a drop-down arrow as well as a selection of the cells which appears to the right side of the arrow.

The article offers chip solution analogue and digital position sensors TMS320F28379D and TMS320F28379S microcontrollers from semiconductor manufacturing company Texas Instruments Inc.

The article offers ultra-low power platform sub-1 GHz CC1310 wireless microcontrollers with battery life of up to 20 years from manufacturing solutions TI's SimpleLinkTM.

The article offers PIC24F microcontroller from GB6 family includes 1 MB of flash memory and 32 kB RAM manufactures by semiconductor manufacturing company Microchip Technology Inc.

The article offers information on the features of mTouch controllers from American microcontroller manufacturer Microchip Technology.

The article offers information on the features of the ultra-low power 32-bit microcontroller core from Dolphin Integration, a company that specializes in the design industry of microelectronics.

The article provides information on the effectiveness of the microcontroller with only one pin. According to the article, inputting several bits of information through single entry pin of the said microcontroller, can be effectively useful, without the complexness of the UART. In addition, it could also allow keyboard scanning, mode switches, and digital data modification.

The article focuses on the microcontrollers moving-dot display interface circuit design. It states that the circuit uses three microcontrollers output lines, which are the data, clock and latch, and it needs hardware and firmware. Compared with bar-graph display, the moving-dot display has some advantages including better object location detection in sonar and radar applications and yielding brightness as it provides the same current for all LEDs (light-emitting diodes).

The article offers solutions to the calculation problems of digital filtering. It is said that the necessity to calculate the integers instead of on floating-point numbers in digital filtering causes two problems. First, is the rounding-off error from the limited number of bits which can degrade the filter response or even make it unstable. Second, is the handling of the fractional values with integer math. Moreover, several ways of solving these issues are being presented on the paper.

The article presents a design idea that modifies electrical circuit using one microcontroller-I/O pin that drives two LEDs with low quiescent current. Accordingly, this idea was good, mainly because of the lack of spare I/O pins in the microcontroller and the simplicity of the implementation. However, the circuit cannot be use in battery-powered designs because it exhibits a current leakage on the order of 2 mA even with both LEDs off.

The article offers brief information on the STM32 microcontrollers and integrated circuits from the semiconductor company STMicroelectronics NV.

The article offers brief information on the S32K automotive microcontrollers from the semiconductor company Freescale Semiconductor Inc.

The article offers information on the ultra-low-power ferroelectric RAM (FRAM) microcontrollers from semiconductor manufacturing company Texas Instruments Inc.

The article offers information on the RISC-351 Zephyr microcontroller intellectual property (IP) from semiconductor company Dolphin Integration SA.

The article offers brief information on the LAN9252 stand-alone EtherCAT slave controller from microcontroller, memory and analog semiconductors manufacturer Microchip Technology Inc.

The article offers brief information on the Smart SAM L21 microcontrollers (MCU) from Atmel.

The article offers brief information on the DQ8051 IP 8051 microcontroller core from Digital Core Design (DCD).

The article offers brief information on the RX700 microcontroller series from Texas Instruments Inc.

The article offers brief information on the Kinetis KV5x microcontroller unit (MCU) from Freescale Semiconductor Inc.