Aimed at applications that need to transition from a microcontroller (MCU) to a microprocessor (MPU) to handle increased processing requirements, Microchip Technology Inc. has expanded its MPU-based ...

Xilinx’s Zynq family has been an extremely successful system-on-chip (SoC) FPGA solution. However, as with many FPGA platforms, using this flexible solution can be especially tough when it comes to ...

Arm’s Cortex-A family handles heavy-duty operating systems like Linux, while the Cortex-M microcontroller typically runs an RTOS. Designing a system for a Cortex-M tends to be relatively easy compared ...

The Raspberry Pi is an inexpensive, tiny computer that’s about the size of a deck of cards. Now the group behind the mini-computer are going even smaller with the new Raspberry Pi Compute Module. It ...

Power-management designers and system architectsstruggle to meet the increasingly tight performancedemands of load ICs, such as FPGAs, DSPs, andCPUs. To meet higher processor-clock frequencies,these ...

Understanding design and performance characteristics can help machine and system designers select the best products to satisfy requirements of the machines they are building. Semiconductor ...