Hackaday

The Early History Of The Microcontroller: It Came From Texas

Although for most generations alive today the era of microcontrollers (MCU) feels like it starts somewhere with the Intel 8051 and AVR MCUs, the history of these self-contained computing marvels that ...
Hackaday

Ask Hackaday: What Would You Do With The World’s Smallest Microcontroller?

It’s generally pretty easy to spot a microcontroller on a PCB. There are clues aplenty: the more-or-less central location, the nearby crystal oscillator, the maze of supporting passives, and perhaps ...
Electronic Design

8051 MCUs Clear 100 MIPS Performance Hurdle

With a peak performance of 100 MIPS, the C8051F120 microcontroller (MCU) family claims to be the industry's highest performance devices to date. In addition to the 100-MIPS 8051 CPU, the devices ...
Electronic Design

8051-based MCU Adds FRAM

Extending the company's FRAM-enhanced microcontroller offerings, the VRS51L3174 debuts as an 8051-based MCU with 8 KB of nonvolatile FRAM that drops into industry-standard 44-pin QFP sockets. Features ...
Design-Reuse

Evatronix introduces the R8051XC2 to supply SoC designers with the world’s highest performance 8051 8-bit microcontroller IP core

The latest improvements to this industry standard guarantee the fastest average instruction execution in the 8051 market. Gliwice & Bielsko-Biala, Poland -- January 26, 2009 - The Silicon Intellectual ...