Integrated circuits (ICs) sit at the center of modern electronics, powering everything from low-cost consumer gadgets to mission-critical automotive, medical, ...

Texas Instruments’ MSP430™ family has long been one of the defining microcontroller platforms in the ultra-low-power embedded world. For more than 20 years, ...

Temperature measurement is one of the most widely-used sensing tasks in instrumentation and control systems. Yet despite its seeming simplicity, choosing the ...

If you’ve heard makers rave about “SBCs” and wondered why people build desktops, retro arcades, smart-home hubs, and robots around a palm-sized PCB—this guide ...

Engineers often chase the smallest microcontroller for space-constrained products, only to discover painful trade-offs in analog quality, timers, or tool ...

If you’ve ever cracked open an ESP8266 dev board, an Arduino-compatible module, or a low-power gadget and spotted a flat SOT-223 package labeled “1117,” ...

If you’ve ever built a breadboard project, debugged a small amplifier, or switched a relay from a microcontroller, chances are you’ve used (or could have ...

Microcontrollers like the Arduino are powerful, but their number of I/O pins is limited. If you want to control dozens of LEDs, 7-segment displays, or other ...

What is a Microcontroller A microcontroller (often shortened to MCU) is a compact, self-contained computer on a single chip, designed to perform specific ...