One of the better retro historians out there on YouTube is the 8-Bit Guy, and after years of wanting to do something like this, it’s finally happening. The 8-Bit Guy is building his dream computer, ...

Modern embedded designs require a wide range of capabilities, including low power support, high performance/throughput, function-rich peripherals, different ...

Processors are becoming more powerful both in terms of the MIPS and the bandwidth of the data they can handle. They are equipped with most of the peripherals to make them resemble a System on a chip ...

If you have played around with your settings at all in Lightroom or other image processing software, you may have seen some options surrounding color bit depth. If you don’t know what that is, you may ...

CPUs that process 32 bits as a single unit, compared to 8, 16 or 64. Although 32-bit CPUs were used in mainframes as early as the 1960s, personal computers began to migrate from 16 to 32 bits in the ...

CPUs that process 64 bits as a single unit, compared to 8, 16 or 32. Today's desktop and laptop computers are mostly 64-bit machines; however, there are countless 32-bit, 16-bit and 8-bit ...

Why should microcontroller (MCU) “bit size” matter to a system designer? After all, developers are looking for an MCU that does the job for a particular application at a reasonable price. Next on the ...