All of Microchip’s baseline PIC microcontrollers have internal 4-MHz oscillators, which are useful for freeing up one or two pins for I/O use and allowing you to build minimal-component-count designs ...

Piezoelectric buzzers find wide use in embedded systems for audible-signal generation. You can drive a piezoelectric element directly from a microcontroller’s I/O pins, but the maximum voltage rating ...

Abstract: We present a surface acoustic wave (SAW) two-port oscillator extended by a feedforward control circuit, the goal of which is to suppress the effects of the SAW resonator temperature ...

Maxim Integrated Products (NASDAQ: MXIM) introduces the MAX7387-MAX7391 family of silicon oscillators that offers all the popular supervisory functions of medium-accuracy silicon oscillators in a ...

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 ...

Atmel’s new AM3S and SAM3N flash Cortex-M3 microcontrollers are compatible with the earlier SAM7S flash ARM7 series and can offer more powerful peripherals, more performance and bigger memories. The ...