EDN

Blurring Lines Between 8- and 32-bit Microcontrollers?

… or is the 16-bit microcontroller family dead? Over the years, the lines have blurred between the 8-, 16-, and 32-bit microcontroller families with designers confused to when they should select which ...
Electronic Design

Merging 16- and 32-Bit DSPs with MCUs

Merge a 32-bit DSP and a 16-bit microcontroller (MCU) into a single integrated unit and you've got one of Motorola's latest developments, the 56F800 architecture. Fast interrupt support allows the ...
Design-Reuse

STMicroelectronics Licenses ARM Cortex-M3 Processor For Use In Next-Generation 32-Bit Microcontrollers

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND AND CAMBRIDGE, UK – Oct. 4, 2006 – STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), one of the world’s leaders in the development of microcontrollers, and ARM [(LSE: ARM); (Nasdaq: ARMHY)] ...
Embedded

NetSilicon’s 32-bit MCU takes aim at 16-bit slots

BOSTON NetSilicon Inc. hopes to steal microcontroller slots from 16-bit devices with a stripped-down 32-bit ARM7TDMI-based MCU tailored for low cost. The controller, designated the NS7520 and slated ...