Grenoble, France and Shanghai, China -- April 26, 2005-- Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC; NYSE: SMI and HKSE: 981) and Dolphin Integration SA have entered a partnership to ...

FPGAs enable everyone to be a chip designer. This installment shows how to design the bus interface for a generic peripheral chip. When designing with an embedded microprocessor, you always have to ...

The 8051 is an accumulator-based design with 255 instructions. A basic instruction cycle takes 12 clocks; however, Dallas Semiconductor redesigned the instruction-execution circuitry to reduce the ...

OneEighty Software has created a Java virtual machine that can run on cheap $1 processors such as the venerable, yet popular, 8051. Called Origin-J, the software is aimed at bringing Java to low cost ...