The long-awaited Arduino Due just hit the market, replacing the 8-bit, 16 MHz brain of the popular Uno microcontroller prototyping platform with a 32-bit, 84 MHz processor, while augmenting inputs ...

[Paul] has been working on porting over Arduino libraries for use with the Teensy microcontroller platform. This tends to be pretty simple since they both use the same Atmel chip architecture. But … ...

Arduino, the open-source hardware and software platform, has launched its next-generation UNO board, a significant revision of its 8-bit technology. Powered by a 32-bit microcontroller, the new UNO R4 ...

Arduino does make use of 8-bit Atmel AVR microcontrollers. Atmel is another supplier which continues to invest in its range of 8-bit megaAVR MCUs. Now in their third generation, the MCUs are ...

Built around an Atmel ATmega microcontroller loaded with an Arduino-compatible bootloader, the Gamebuino made the most of its limited specifications - a 16MHz 8-bit processor, 2KB of RAM, and a ...

Microchip's Clifford Swartz presents the 8-bit AVR microcontroller with cellular connectivity. The EV70N78A AVR IoT-Cellular Mini evaluation module hosts an AVR128DB48 AVR 8-bit microcontroller ...

This home appliance microcontroller is based on the company's TLCS-870/C 16MHz 8-bit CPU core which,features 731 basic instructions and supports power conservation through a dual clock functionality ...

Whenever we write up a feature on a microcontroller or microcontroller project here on Hackaday, we inevitably get two diametrically opposed opinions in the comments. If the article featured an 8-b… ...

The AVR The AVR 8-bit microcontroller's modified Harvard architecture was introduced in 1997. These Atmel microcontrollers are popular among a reasonably large number of developers because they ...