Why should designers offload a microcontroller’s CPU? Performance and power consumption are the typical reasons for adding offload capability to a microcontroller. Traditionally, any hardware ...

While regular Hackaday readers already know how to blink a LED with a microcontroller and have moved onto slightly more challenging projects such as solving the Navier-Stokes equations in 6502 ...

San Jose, Ca. – Atmel Corp. has begun revamping its 32 bit ARM7TDM-based microcontroller devices with a new peripheral DMA controller (PDC) architecture it believes will significantly improve ...

Like just about everyone we know, [Luis] decided a gigantic RGB LED matrix would be a cool thing to build. Gigantic LED matrices are very hard to build, though: not only do you have to deal with large ...

Atmel’s AT91CAP7L standard-product microcontroller has as many as 200,000 gates of MCPF (metal-programmable-cell fabric) that you can use to implement proprietary customer IP (intellectual property), ...

Atmel’s new AM3S and SAM3N flash Cortex-M3 microcontrollers are compatible with the earlier SAM7S flash ARM7 series and can offer more powerful peripherals, more performance and bigger memories. The ...