This Design Idea is for low-end, eight-pin, flash-memory, 8-bit microcontrollers, such as the MC68HC908QT4A from Freescale, but it would apply to any 8-bit microcontrollers that use the ADC feature.

You could write your microcontroller code on your desktop PC, or you could do it on your laptop on the go. Or, if you want to get really portable about things, you could write your embedded code ...

Finding out where your microcontroller's firmware spends most of its time can be a tedious task when you use a conventional in-circuit emulator and breakpoint techniques. Other such tasks include ...

a microcontroller / breadboard / microcontroller programmer (in this example we will show some BX24 sample code) a MIDI female connector (either a cable or circuit board mount type, also known as ...

Checks code against a thorough specification list of “ultra-low-power best practices,” flagging and itemizing each “ultra-low-power rule violation” via a graphical user interface.

Users can integrate a large number of devices without writing any code, according to Farnell. “With BeaglePlay-hosted, kernel drivers and collaborative support code,” it said, “there’s no need to cut ...