As soon as any benefit can be drawn out of such an activity, deployed electronic systems are subject to hacking in the same manner as regular PCs are. This article will briefly describe the methods employed by microcontroller hardware hackers and will also shed some light on the method employed by the micro manufacturers to prevent this kind on activities.

Freescale has an interesting product line: embedded MCU plus power, MM908Exxx. It is a combination of analog features such as high side and low side switches, H-bridge stepper motor drivers using SMARTMOS technologies with Freescale standard flash microcontroller (HC08/HC12) in a single package.

MRF49XA by Microchip is a highly integrated RF transceiver that can be used in the 433, 868 and 915 MHz frequency bands. FSK modulation is internally used by this module.

This article shows a single-phase energy meter solution using the MCP3909 Dual Channel ADC and the PIC18F25K20 8-bit microcontroller.

The purpose of this application note is to offer the designer a set of examples for the read and write functions for using the Microchip SPI serial SRAM.

The 8-bit MC9S08SV16/8 (SV16 SV8) MCU family provides best-in-class performance, system reliability and design flexibility to meet the tough design requirements of industrial applications.

Using a highly-integrated microcontroller running “StickOS BASIC”, it is possible to quickly build a toaster oven temperature profile controller for performing surface mount (SMT) printed circuit board reflow soldering at home.

A car door differs from a calculator or a phone in that it makes sense to press more than one key at a time.

Think Small - Small Power, Small Cost, Small Price MCF51CN from Freescale

The thermostat reference design is an example of how a thermostat can be built taking advantage of the MC9S08LL16 features.