Interfacing real world devices to a microprocessor has become increasingly more difficult. It usually takes several discrete components to condition real world analog and digital before they can be ...

The Z80 was a big deal in the 1970s and 1980s, and while its no longer a dominant architecture today, its legacy lives on. [James Andrew Fitzjohn] is a fan of the Z, and decided to interface the real ...

SmartFan Cirrus is a user-programmable, microprocessor-based interface for DC fans with built-in speed control based on a pulse width modulation or voltage control input. It regulates fan speed from a ...

This application note describes a simple and efficient FPGA configuration method that utilizes a microprocessor to configure an FPGA device from a Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) flash memory. This ...

Rambus's 6.4GHz "Redwood" parallel logic interface optimized for processor, chipset and network chip connections MICROPROCESSOR FORUM, SAN JOSE,CA - October 13, 2003 - Rambus Inc. (Nasdaq:RMBS), a ...

STMicroelectronics has introduced what it claims to be the industry's first embedded microprocessor that couples two ARM Cortex-A9 cores with a Third-generation double-data rate (ddr3) memory ...

The most common method for interfacing multiple switches—multiplexing— allows for the connection of (N/2)2 switches with N microcontroller IO lines. The method described below, which has its roots in ...