Colorado Springs, Co.&#151 Ramtron International Corp. is offering what it believes is the industry’s first 8051-based microcontroller with integrated nonvolatile ferroelectric random access memory ...

Extending the company's FRAM-enhanced microcontroller offerings, the VRS51L3174 debuts as an 8051-based MCU with 8 KB of nonvolatile FRAM that drops into industry-standard 44-pin QFP sockets. Features ...

Bielsko-Biala/Poland -- August 10, 2009 - The silicon Intellectual Property (IP) provider, Evatronix SA, today announced the full support of its R8051XC2 microcontroller IP, the world’s fastest 8051 ...

Boasting of a 50x performance gain over original 8051 microcontrollers and a six-fold gain over the next-fastest 8051s, the DS89C420 is said to be the first 8051-compatible controller to achieve peak ...

Judging from the video (found after the break) the Nebulophone is one of the best sounding DIY synthesizers we’ve seen. Especially when you consider the simplicity of the hardware design. It uses an ...

NUREMBERG, Germany — Falling costs for 32-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) has prompted considerable speculation about them displacing 8-bit MCUs for new designs. But 8-bit MCUs aren't nearly dead yet.

San Jose, Calif. – STMicroelectronics and Philips Semiconductors have independently beefed up their lines of the 8051 class of 8-bit microcontrollers, suggesting that the market for this popular MCU ...

In an effort listen to his music on shuffle without the need to touch the volume knob [Mike] build his own automatic volume leveling hardware. He knows what you’re thinking right now: there’s software ...

Researchers Sean Cross and Dr. Andrew Huang demonstrated yesterday at the Chaos Communication Congress that they could write arbitrary code onto various flash-based SD memory cards. Researchers ...