The Procedure for Designing a Microcontroller-Based System

In envisaging a new microcontroller design, it is prudent to follow a design procedure that will take you from the initial problem statement to a programmed microcontroller that can be embedded in application hardware. In this article, we look at … Read More

How to Interface LCD Display to a Microcontroller

LCD crystal displays allow a better user interface compared with LED displays as it is much easier to display text messages in LCD displays. They also consume much less power than LED displays. Nonetheless, LED displays have better intensity than … Read More

Interfacing LEDs & Electromechanical Relays to Microcontrollers

In this article, we briefly describe how to interface LEDs and electromechanical relays to microcontrollers. Note, a detailed description on how this is done can be found in the official documentation of the microcontroller you are working with. Here, we … Read More

An Overview of Assembly Language for Programming Microcontrollers

Introduction

Software is the term used for the instructions that tells a microprocessor or microcontroller what to do. The collections of instructions that a microprocessor will recognize is its instruction set. The form of the instruction set depends on the … Read More