We use a microcontroller without a second thought, in applications where once we might have resorted to a brace of 74 logic chips. But how many of us have spared a thought for how the microcontroller ...

In 1975, Texas Instruments first introduced the 4-bit microcontroller TMS-1000, marking the official birth of microcontrollers. The TMS1000 is recognized as the world's first commercial ...

First handheld games of Nintendo - Game & Watch use 4-bit Sharp microcontrollers of 5xx series. For example: Donkey Kong game uses chip Sharp SM-510. It has segmented program address space and program ...

The venerable 8-bit microcontroller just keeps chugging along. Despite the performance advantages of its 16- and 32-bit siblings, 8-bit micros still accounted for a substantial percentage of the ...