A handy tool to have on the bench is a Flash chip programmer, and the ones based around the CH341A USB bus converter chip are readily available. But the chip is capable of so much more than simply ...

Turning an Arduino of virtually any sort into a simple AVR 6-pin ISP programmer is old hat. But when Atmel came out with a series of really tiny AVR chips, the ATtiny10 and friends with only six pins ...

Back in the old days, if you wanted to tune your ride you simply grabbed a few tools and started jinking around with the carburetor and twisting the distributor. It ...

Sprint and PS300 Platforms Open Up Award-Winning MCUs to Thousands of End Users SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 30, 2004 -- ZiLOG, Inc. (Nasdaq:ZILG), a leading provider of integrated 8-bit ...

When Ford made the switch to port fuel injection in 1986, many performance enthusiasts were ready to quit, claiming the new electronics (read: EFI) was going to kill the hobby by eliminating the ...