You are the project leader for a highly successful consumer product. One day you are asked to upgrade all of the devices in the field to add the latest “must have ...

Microchip’s PIC18-Q24 MCUs employ a programming and debugging interface disable (PDID) function that enhances chip-level security. When enabled, this enhanced code protection feature disables the ...

Will Strauss, president of Forward Concepts, said Freescale's move is part of a larger trend among microcontroller and DSP vendors to protect investments in software development by offering compatible ...

It is easy to port C compilers to architectures that look like old minicomputers or bigger CPUs. However, as the authors of the Small Device C Compiler (SDCC) found, pushing C into a typical 8-bit CPU ...