EDN

When is a microcontroller an SOC?

It’s getting harder and harder to tell the difference between a microcontroller and an SOC (system on chip). Consider, for example, the SH7263 portable-media-player reference design from Renesas. It ...
EDN

SoC-based configurable systems replace the microcontroller

Many products once designed using 8-bit microcontrollers with external digital and analog circuitry are being re-designed using SoC devices. The term “System-on-Chip” encompasses a broad range of ...
Hackaday

Quark SoC

Intel have a developer board that is new to the market, based on their Quark (formerly “Mint Valley”) D2000 low-power x86 microcontroller. This is a micropower 32-bit processor running at 32MHz, and ...
Hackaday

SiFive Announces RISC-V SoC

At the Linley Processor Conference today, SiFive, the semiconductor company building chips around the Open RISC-V instruction set has announced the availability of a quadcore processor that runs Linux ...
Electronic Design

SoC Combines A Microcontroller And Digital Signal Processor On-Chip

The VERSA1 is a fully integrated microcontroller-based data acquisition system-on-a-chip (SoC) designed to facilitate the use of products that require production-based calibration (e.g., complex ...
CNX Software

Nordic Semi nRF54LM20B wireless SoC integrates 128 MHz Axon NPU for Edge AI workloads

Nordic Semi nRF54ML20B Arm Cortex-M33 wireless SoC is the first nRF54L microcontroller to integrate the ultra-efficient Axon ...
Elektor Magazine

New Espressif Microcontrollers Debut at CES 2026

New Espressif microcontrollers unveiled at CES 2026 include the tri-band Wi-Fi 6E ESP32-E22 and ultra-low-power ESP32-H21.
Electronic Design

RISC SoC Enhances Sensor Apps

Debuting as the latest member of the MAXQ RISC microcontroller line, the MAXQ7670 system-on-chip (SoC), mixed-signal microcontroller targets sensor applications. The device handles low-amplitude ...