Editor's Note: View the Fundamentals of Microcontrollers to catch up on the architectural differences, selection, set up and programming of today's micros. To work through the thicket of choices, it's ...

Many of today’s embedded industrial and automotive systems are built upon 8- or 16-bit microcontroller architectures. With the availability of new low-power 32-bit architectures, there is an ...

MicroPython is a compact implementation of the Python 3 programming language designed to work with microcontrollers. Initially announced back in 2013 as part of a Kickstarter project created by Damien ...

Microcontroller architectures can be sorted into three basic categories. First, the single accumulator/register bank is used by the 8051 and PIC architectures (see the figure, a). Operations are ...