This application note demonstrates the implementation of an interrupt-driven UART, an on-chip peripheral block featured in Zilog’s Z8 Encore! XP and Z8 Encore! MC families of microcontrollers. This ...

This application note describes how to configure Zilog’s Z8051 Universal Serial Interface (USI) peripheral to operate as a Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter (UART). C code drivers for both ...

Embedded World, Nuremberg, Germany: Using the recent Embedded World show as its platform, Future Technology Devices International (FTDI) launched the FT232H USB2.0 Hi-Speed device. The single-channel ...

If you have worked with very low cost microcontroller in the past, such as the ATtiny series from AVR, you’ve probably been stuck without a UART peripheral. The usual answer to this problem is to ...

UART is commonly found in microcontrollers, computers, and peripheral devices. MAX14830ETM+ is a UART interface IC that was designed for bridging microprocessors with SPI/MICROWIRE or I2C ...

12 Mbit/s USB host bridge IC simplifies integration of a USB link into peripheral hardware from any Android platform with a USB device port. A 12 Mbit/s USB host bridge IC from FTDI, the FT312D, ...

A fundamental skill that embedded software developers need to master is understanding how to write drivers. Within an embedded system, there a typically two types of drivers: microcontroller ...

As embedded systems hardware is becoming more powerful, the demand for high quality, sophisticated and compelling applications is increasing. In addition to that, due to fierce competition in the ...

When considering the impact of reading and writing of data has on an embedded system’s power utilization we cannot just think about memory access: we need to pull data into and out of the device as ...