Rigid-Flex PCBs: Enhancing Durability and Flexibility in Electronic Devices

3 months ago
John Mulindi

The world of electronics is constantly evolving, allowing designers and manufacturers to push the boundaries of device performance with cutting-edge…

Key Features of PIC16X84 Family of Microcontrollers

10 months ago

PIC microcontrollers are fabricated by Microchip Technology. PIC16C84 and PIC16F84 are the two microcontrollers in the PIC16X84 family of microcontrollers.…

ADD Instruction in Intel 8051 (MCS-51) Microcontroller

10 months ago

The ADD instruction tells the microcontroller’s CPU to add the source byte to register A and put the result in…

Main Features of Intel 8086 Microprocessor

10 months ago

8-bit microprocessors are limited in their speed (the number of instructions that can be executed in 1 s), directly addressable…

Basic Features of 68HC11 Family of Microcontrollers

10 months ago

The 68HC11 (also abbreviated as 6811 or HC11) is an 8-bit microcontroller that was introduced by Motorola in the year…

Process Synchronization using Semaphores

11 months ago

Mutual exclusion typically imposes some conditions on access to a given resource by two or more different processes. For instance,…

The Procedure for Designing a Microcontroller-Based System

11 months ago

In envisaging a new microcontroller design, it is prudent to follow a design procedure that will take you from the…

Main Features of 80C51, 87C51 and 80C31 Microcontrollers

11 months ago

All these three types of microcontrollers are 8-bit manufactured by NXP semiconductors with embedded Intel processors. Some of the key…

Key Features of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs)

11 months ago

A field programmable gate array (FPGA) utilizes an array of logic blocks, which can be configured by the user. The…

How a Microcontroller can be used in a Temperature Measurement System

11 months ago

The figure below illustrates the key elements of a temperature measurement system employing a MC68HC11 microcontroller. Fig: Temperature measurement system…