It’s getting harder and harder to tell the difference between a microcontroller and an SOC (system on chip). Consider, for example, the SH7263 portable-media-player reference design from Renesas. It ...

Many products once designed using 8-bit microcontrollers with external digital and analog circuitry are being re-designed using SoC devices. The term “System-on-Chip” encompasses a broad range of ...

The VERSA1 is a fully integrated microcontroller-based data acquisition system-on-a-chip (SoC) designed to facilitate the use of products that require production-based calibration (e.g., complex ...

At the Linley Processor Conference today, SiFive, the semiconductor company building chips around the Open RISC-V instruction set has announced the availability of a quadcore processor that runs Linux ...

Maxim Integrated Products extends its line of MAXQ mixed-signal microcontrollers with the MAXQ7670A, a complete system-on-chip (SoC), mixed-signal microcontroller that integrates all the functions ...

Ambiq, a technology company located in Austin, Texas, has released the latest version of its low-power system-on-chip (SoC) and microcontroller (MCU) using a minimum of energy to capture sensor data ...

Intel have a developer board that is new to the market, based on their Quark (formerly “Mint Valley”) D2000 low-power x86 microcontroller. This is a micropower 32-bit processor running at 32MHz, and ...