‘Green electronics’ is an ideal that refers to environmentally friendly digital devices. Before the idea was brought forward, a considerable percentage of components involved in the manufacturing process of most electronic and digital devices were very toxic. Chemicals such as lead and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) were commonly used in the manufacture of items [...]

As automobiles become increasingly user-independent and ‘intelligent,’ the demand for embedded electronic devices for use in cars is steadily increasing. This was indicated by increased demand for printed card buses (PCBs) that were destined for use as embedded devices in automobiles. PCB production rose in several parts of Europe, and experts in the [...]

Advancement in embedded electronics has transformed the way people work, communicate and unwind. It has paved the way for the integration of home and office device networking so people can share, transfer and save data and information in rates that are faster than ever. It has also promoted safety, comfort and efficiency in [...]

Embedded electronic technology is all around. One may live in a digitized house, ride a car or subway train that has embedded sensors and detectors and work using an integrated company network. One can eat lunch in restaurants or play in amusement centers that have integrated computers, screens and controllers.
Embedded electronics technology is [...]

CTX imaging is an image capture process that integrates the traditional techniques of computed tomography (CT) scanners and X-rays. The system is still in prototype stage and is far from small (at present, it’s still as big as one whole room), but Dr. Elizabeth Brainerd of Brown University, who heads the project, hopes that [...]

There can be any external device that may be connected(interfaced) to microcontroller. They may be for control input like buttons, keypads, touch or for information output eg. display, sound, motor, relay, modem. Also output devices may be further chips like transmitters, frequency generators, memory. Interfacing with chips is not that hard because most of all [...]

When designing embedded hardware you probably want to visually express what embedded software will be performing and how different functions depend on each other. How to make software documentation simple clear and informative. If you are developer, you may want to explain your ideas understandably without loads of code text. So depending on what level [...]

Microwire is a three-wire serial interface used by National Semiconductor in its COPS processor family. The three signals are SI (serial input), SO (serial output), and SK (serial clock). SI and SO are input to and output from the processor, respectively. The processor clocks data to the peripheral on SO and receives data on SI. [...]

Sometimes you just haven’t ability to flash microcontroller in order to test program functionality in development phase. For this there may be many reasons like you don’t have a prototype ready or you need to test parts of code and so on. For this there are software simulators used which simulates microcontroller work without microcontroller [...]

Actually many embedded systems use multiple microcontrollers and microprocessors. This is not about a multi-core processors but several distinct processors used in one design.
Multiprocessor systems allow to distribute computing power among different processors and this way overall speed may be increased, coding simplified and modularity reached. Using multiprocessor embedded design have many benefits. One of [...]