EDN

Kitchen Timer Built Around PIC16F84 Microcontroller

The device makes use of a PIC16F84 microcontroller in order to create a kitchen timer that may be used to time spaghetti or an egg. The device makes use of a PIC16F84 microcontroller in order to ...
Elektor Magazine

Smart Soldering Iron Safety Timer With ATtiny85

In the workshop, there are two kinds of soldering irons. The first : the modern, smart station that reduces its temperature in standby mode, sometimes shuts itself off, protects the tip, and reassures ...
EDN

Perform timing for microcontrollers without using timers

Microcontrollers now find use in every walk of life. Their peripherals vary from the general-purpose I/Os to the USB interface, making them versatile for a range of products. Timing is one key part of ...
Electronic Design

Atmel’s Low-Power MCUs Integrate High-Speed Timers

Adding to the tinyAVR microcontroller family, the 20-pin ATtiny261, ATtiny461, and ATtiny861 pair 2 KB, 4 KB, and 8 KB of flash memory, respectively, with high-speed timers. Each operates at 20 MHz ...
Electronic Design

Just One Microcontroller Pin Sets Programmable Timer's Interval

Most digital timers require a set of dip switches or rotary BCD encoders to preset their interval. But those techniques consume eight or more inputs from a microcontroller's (MCU's) I/O lines. To ...
Embedded

Introduction to Counter/Timers

Counter/timer hardware is a crucial component of most embedded systems. In some cases a timer is needed to measure elapsed time; in others we want to count or time some external events. Here's a ...
Business Wire

Toshiba’s Arm® Cortex®-M4-based Microcontrollers with Built-in Timers and Communication Channels Achieve High-Speed Data Processing

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation (“Toshiba”) has added the M4G Group (1) to its TXZ™ Family of Arm® Cortex®-M-based microcontrollers for office automation (OA) ...