If you’ve ever wanted to program a microcontroller “in the cloud,” you might want to head over to Inventor Town, an online IDE that allows you to write and compile firmware for the MSP430 series of ...

Whether you are creating a small Internet appliance, some hardware instrumentation, data loggers or an army of autonomous robots to do your bidding, in numerous situations you need the flexibility of ...

Inside any electronic device, from an old television remote to a global positioning system, there will be at least one microcontroller unit (MCU) and, in many cases, several. MCUs are used in ...

COMMAND_PAYLOAD_ON_8BIT = 197 #constant indicating that the OBC wants the EPS to turn ON payload COMMAND_PAYLOAD_OFF_8BIT = 245 #constant indicating that the OBC wants the EPS to turn OFF payload ...

Responding to the rapid growth of the embedded market in China, Freescale Semiconductor (NYSE:FSL) (NYSE:FSL.B) is conducting an online training program designed to familiarize design engineers and ...

Abstract: In this paper, approaches to the formal description of interactions between a microcontroller and a program are investigated. We consider the finite state machine (FSM) as a formal model of ...