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Xpress Your Designs to the World! Microchip MPLAB® Xpress Development Board

On June 16, 2016 in Dev Tools by Paul Golata

I have recently incorporated the Fractal Audio AX8 as an all-in-one Amp Modeler + Multi-Effects Pedalboard Processor in lieu of my traditional amplifier. And as a base rock-n-roll patch, I have programmed the Trainwreck Express.

Tagged With: Guitars, Microchip, MPLAB Xpress, Music

My Two Bits About 8 Bits

On August 19, 2014 in Low Power by John Donovan

OK, time to own up: With 32-bit MCUs becoming so inexpensive as well as capable, I figured 8-bit MCUs were hanging in there for extended legacy designs. I mean, who would base a new design on a 35-year old 8051 architecture? As it turns out, plenty of people.

Tagged With: 8-bit, MCU, Microchip

New Ultra-Low-Power Benchmark

On June 4, 2014 in Low Power by John Donovan

As an editor I’ve been on the receiving end of a lot of specmanship, which is why I always look to datasheets, though meaningful comparisons of seemingly similar MCUs between different vendors are hard to construct, especially since overall energy consumption is so application specific. As Markus Levy of the Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium (EEMBC) remarked to me last week, “Datasheets don’t lie, they just present [information] the way they want to present it.”

Tagged With: ADC, ADI, ARM, Atmel, Cypress, datasheets, DTC, EEMBC, Freescale, MCU, Microchip, RAM, Renesas, RTCC, Silicon Labs, Spansion, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments, ULPBench

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