Electronic Design

Microcontroller Battery Monitor Circuit Needs Only One Pin

This circuit solved a problem encountered in developing a portable device with an ARM Cortex-M0 processor. The power supply consisted of two AA batteries (2 × 1.5 V), and I needed to signal the user ...
Electronic Design

Set DC-Motor Speed with Light-Controlled Microcontroller Circuit

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. This 8051 microcontroller-based control circuit adjusts the speed of a small permanent-magnet dc motor via photosensors ...
EDN

ZiLOG Offers In-Circuit Emulator Kit for Z8 Encore! 64K Family of 8-bit Microcontrollers

San Jose, Calif. — ZiLOG, Inc. is offering a high-end development tool that emulates its Z8 Encore! 64K series of 8-bit microcontrollers (MCUs). The In-Circuit Emulator (ICE) kit enables software ...
EDN

BPM design using Microchip’s analog devices and PIC24F microcontrollers circuit diagram

A Blood Pressure Meter (BPM) is a non-invasive device used to measure blood pressure. This application note demonstrates the implementation of a digital blood pressure meter using Microchip’s MCP6N16 ...
Hackaday

Mains Clocking A Microcontroller

[Lujji] is playing around with the STM8 microcontroller. In reviewing the official documentation for this chip, he read the external clock can be a sine wave, a triangle wave, or a square wave with a ...