Moving forward on the Embedded Systems Programming, the 3rd part of the series presents the programming languages, and software development of the microcontroller. The article describes the machine ...

The Unified Program and Debug Interface (UPDI) is Microchip’s proprietary interface for programming and on-chip debugging, and has become the standard on AVR MCUs after Microchip’s purchase of Atmel.

Microchip has upped the security of a family of PIC18 microcontrollers by adding a one-time disable to its programming and debugging interface. Called PDID (programming and debugging interface disable ...

Imagine you’re stuck on a desert island, hundreds of miles away from the nearest person, and you finally have time to finish that project you’re working on. You have a single microcontroller, but ...

Users can add un-supported MCUs to Segger’s range of in-circuit programmers following the introduction of its ‘flasher device support kit’. “Customers have the flexibility to add new devices when ...

MCUs will play an increasingly critical role in cars and IoT devices, but they’re also becoming much more difficult to design. Microcontrollers are becoming more complex, more powerful, and ...

This article presents an introduction of microcontrollers as the first part on the series Embedded Systems Programming. It describes the structure and operation of the microcontroller, and the purpose ...