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 ...

If you’ve ever needed an example of why you should not plug random USB peripherals into your computer, you need only look at BadUSB. The BadUSB attack relies on the fact that the microcontroller ...

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 ...

More engineers are taking advantage of USB as a standardized interface, in combination with other serial-interface protocols. The PIC18F1XK50 Microcontrollers include I2CTM, SPI and USART interfaces, ...

Atmel® Corporation, a leader in microcontroller and touch solutions, today announced additional unique features to the already-successful 8/16-bit AVR XMEGA microcontroller (MCU) family with the ...

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® ...

USB interfaces are everywhere today, with low cost flash memory drives and all kinds of USB peripherals readily available. But these are very much focused on the PC market. Attempt to make use of ...

Cypress Semiconductor is sampling a USB Type-C cable controller which includes power delivery (PD) on a small footprint. It is designed for use in 2.4mm thin USB Type-C cable connectors. The ...

V-USB is a software-only implementation of a low-speed USB (USB 1.1) device for Atmel’s AVR® microcontrollers, making it possible to build USB hardware with almost any AVR® microcontroller, not ...