Apart from having the most obvious name, 8085 Simulator developed by Vikas Enterprises has a simple and intuitive UI making it a perfect choice for beginners. One of its selling points is ISR or ...

"Password-Based Bike Ignition Lock System" is a microcontroller-based security system designed using the 8051 (80C51) microcontroller, which enhances bike safety by ...

Before we dive deep into the 8051 microcontroller, let’s first explore the fundamental components: the microcontroller itself, the CPU (central processing unit), memory, and the bus system that ...

Last week, chip manufacturer Zilog announced that after 48 years on the market, its line of standalone DIP (dual inline package) Z80 CPUs is coming to an end, ceasing sales on June 14, 2024. The 8-bit ...

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 ...

Atmel Corp. has four new 14-pin and two new 16-pin microcontrollers based on its 8051 single-cycle core. Atmel's single-cycle core architecture executes each byte fetch in a single clock cycle, ...

Regardless of whether you love it or hate microcontroller documentation, you still have to negotiate it. In the first part of this article series, we looked at what is found in a microcontroller ...