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Steve Sanghi’s new “Up And To The Right” book chronicles Microchip’s journey from nearly bankrupt to Top-20 semiconductor maker

Although he did not know it at the time, when Steve Sanghi left Wafer Scale Integration (WSI) to join Microchip in April 1990, he had jumped from the frying pan directly into the fire. Nine months prior, Sanghi had looked at Microchip’s status in the hopes of justifying a merger between ailing WSI and Microchip. … Read More →

What? MORE 8-Bit Microcontrollers?

by Max Maxfield

With all the talk about 8-bit, 16-bit, 32-bit, and 64-bit processors that is constantly swirling around us, I’m not sure how many of today’s younger engineers are aware that the first commercial microprocessor, the Intel 4004, was a 4-bit machine (although, in hindsight — which is the one true science — the part number is … Read More →

A Brief History of the Single-Chip DSP, Part II

After Two Solid Decades of Growth, FPGAs Became the Apex Predators of the DSP Jungle

by Steven Leibson

After DSP’s annus mirabilis in 1948, another three decades would pass before actual, practical DSP chips would appear. DSP bits and pieces like TRW’s MPY016H hardware multiplier and TI’s TMC0280 LPC speech chip teased – real, integrated DSPs were just around the corner – but it was not until the 1980s that semiconductor technology advanced … Read More →

Synopsys’ New Model for Infineon’s Next Generation TriCore Architecture Accelerates Early Automotive Software Development and Test

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., July 28, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Highlights: New TriCore model extensively validated by Synopsys for functional quality, timing accuracy and simulation speed Model integrated with Lauterbach TRACE32 debugger and PLS Universal Debug Engine Microcontroller virtual prototype combining new core model and Infineon peripheral models available for use with Synopsys VDKs Synopsys VDKs enable early software … Read More →

Atollic TrueSTUDIO adds support for NXP microcontrollers

Jonkoping, Sweden, 21st February 2012 – Atollic® today announced the addition of target support for NXP’s family of ARM Cortex™-M0 and Cortex-M3-based microcontrollers in its award-winning Atollic TrueSTUDIO® for ARM® C/C++ development environment. “Atollic continues to deliver full-featured development tools to serve the needs of professional embedded engineers,” says Gene Carter, International Product Manager, Business … Read More →

Tiny FPGA in Microchip’s latest PIC16 microcontroller adds real-time speed, sells for less than 50 cents

by Steven Leibson

Microchip now offers a Flash-based microcontroller with an integrated programmable-logic block for less than half a dollar in volume. The nine members of the Microchip PIC16F13145 family (the ‘113, ‘114, ‘115, ‘123, ‘124, ‘125, ‘143, ‘144, and ‘145) sport the same 8-bit RISC microprocessor architecture as other members of the 16F family, but they also incorporate a new programmable-logic block called a Configurable Logic Block (CLB).

Microchip’s Newest 8-bit, 14/20-pin MCU Adopts I3C Bus for 2-Pin Interfaces to High-Speed Devices

by Steven Leibson

Microchip has just announced the PIC18-Q20 family of 8-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) that feature larger program and data spaces, an I2C peripheral block and one or two I3C peripheral blocks, very low pin counts, and packages as small as 3×3 mm. These devices are available in 14- and 20-pin packages with 16 to 64 Kbytes of … Read More →

In Just Two Days, Intel Foundry Services Falls from Zenith To Nadir, Then Recovers

by Steven Leibson

On August 14, Intel announced that Synopsys would develop a portfolio of intellectual property (IP) for the Intel 3 and Intel 18A process nodes, which will broaden and accelerate access to Synopsys silicon IP for Intel Foundry Services (IFS), its customers, and its growing ecosystem. The support of Synopsys, one of the “big three” Electronic … Read More →

“The Game Console 2.0” Serves up Images of 123 Home Video Game Consoles Across 9 Generations

by Steven Leibson

My engineering career started shortly after video games appeared. The first arcade video game, Computer Space, was developed by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney and released in 1971. Bushnell and Dabney founded Atari the following year. Computer Space was inspired by another computer game, Spacewar!, which MIT students had programmed into a Digital Equipment Corp … Read More →

The Microcontroller that Just Won’t Die

by Steven Leibson

Movie history is replete with heroes and villains that refuse to die, despite grievous bodily harm. Here are a few quotes from various movies to help you remember these characters: “How many times do I have to kill you, boy?” – Jafar to Aladdin, Aladdin, 1992 “Why can’t you just die?” – Two-Face to Batman, … Read More →

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