Originally designed for use in the PC industry, the Universal Serial Bus (USB) is rapidly finding an even bigger market in the embedded world. There, USB connectors are taking up residence on ...

Eindhoven, Netherlands and San Jose, California, November 30, 2011 - NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) today introduced the LPC11U2x series – the first microcontroller based on the ARM® ...

Last year, Jiangsu Yuheng Co., Ltd introduced a new microcontroller. The CH554 is a microcontroller with an E8051 core with a 24 MHz clock, a little more than 1 kB of RAM, and a bit more than 14 kB ...

SANYO Semiconductor Co., Ltd. today announced the introduction of a new 8-bit flash microcontroller with USB 2.0 Full-Speed interface function and built-in DC-DC converter (step-up/step-down circuit) ...

This paper provides an overview of some of the key USB challenges faced by a designer and how TI’s MSP430 USB devices and supporting tools including the new MSP-EXP430F5529LP LaunchPad Evaluation kit ...

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS CONFERENCE, SAN JOSE, CA, May 2, 2011 - INSIDE Secure, a leader in semiconductor solutions for secure transactions and digital identity, today introduced the AT90SO72, a secure, ...

[CNLohr] has been tinkering with some fun parts of late. He’d found out that ordinary LCD screens could be used as simple touch sensors, and he had to try it for himself. He ended up building a little ...

I just took delivery of my very first keyboard with a USB passthrough. I'm sure there's use cases for such, including monitors with them, but in a day when motherboards are festooned with USB ports ...