Its affordability makes it an attractive option for beginners exploring microcontroller programming, as well as for experienced developers working on cost-sensitive projects.

Open microcontroller programming. An even newer trend is for designers to select COTS microcontrollers—such as Raspberry Pi and Arduino—in either general-purpose or industrially-hardened versions.

The programmer uses only two chips: IC1 , a Maxim DS275 for the RS-232 interface between the programmer and the PC, and IC2 , an Atmel AT89C2051 firmware microcontroller, which is the heart of ...

Microchip Technology Inc., and Source Electronics Corp., have developed an automated high-volume programming service for customers utilizing Microchip's PIC10F family of microcontrollers in 6-pin, SOT ...

Microcontrollers existed before the Arduino, and a device that anyone could program and blink an LED existed before the first Maker Faire. This might come as a surprise to some, but for others PICs… ...

For beginners learning to program Arduinos, a web-based, fully networked developer environment called Codebender could drastically reduce the learning curve.

Imagine you’re stuck on a desert island, hundreds of miles away from the nearest person, and you finally have time to finish that project you’re working on. You have a single microcontroller ...