You are the project leader for a highly successful consumer product. One day you are asked to upgrade all of the devices in the field to add the latest “must have ...

Microchip’s PIC18-Q24 MCUs employ a programming and debugging interface disable (PDID) function that enhances chip-level security. When enabled, this enhanced code protection feature disables the ...

Will Strauss, president of Forward Concepts, said Freescale's move is part of a larger trend among microcontroller and DSP vendors to protect investments in software development by offering compatible ...

Building a CPU out of logic gates is a great way to learn about the inner workings of microprocessors, and we’ve seen several impressive projects in this area. [c0pperdragon] set himself the task of ...

It appears that Microsoft has found a new mascot that it wants to stick with. About a week in advance of the Windows 10 launch, Microsoft released a couple of gifts to Windows Insiders that came in ...

Not content with your new, 1.4-billion-transistor Ivy Bridge processor? Maybe it runs too hot, or lacks the polygon-pushing powers that you require? Well, I've got just the thing for you: How about ...

Microchip Technology has announced the first 10 members of its high-pincount, high-density memory PIC18F87J10 Flash microcontroller family, which double the performance in low-voltage applications by ...

A Minecraft player called The1Laz has built an 8 bit CPU in the game, using redstone, which "takes in binary machine code and outputs to a line of redstone torches". We've posted the video of it below ...

Researchers at Nvidia have developed a novel approach to train large language models (LLMs) in 4-bit quantized format while maintaining their stability and accuracy at the level of high-precision ...