Microcontroller interrupts are one of the big tools in our embedded programming arsenal. They make the chip listen for particular events, and once detected they stop what they’re doing and ru… ...

1. The microcontroller (MCU)sees changes in input signals, or on-chip hardware reacts to inputsignals that are out of the ordinary, and the software does not havethe “intelligence” to ignore them or ...

For those of you that do not know, “ V-USB is a software-only implementation of a low-speed USB device for Atmel’s AVR® microcontrollers, making it possible to build USB hardware with almost ...

The 8051-compatible microcontrollers are equipped with up to two inputs that may be used as general-purpose interrupts. A simple way to increase the number of interrupt inputs is shown in the ...

By Ross Carlton, Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Nov 17 2006 (9:15 AM), Embedded.com The hardware design techniques employed for an application will establish the baseline immunity performance. The ...