IBM demonstrates Personal Area Networks (PAN), transmitting data through the human body. A prototype PAN system allows users to exchange electronic business cards by shaking hands. Says IBM: “A kiss ...

The user-programmable microprocessor controller for Maxair air doors can maintain 10 speeds, ±5 rpm. Other features include three modes (on, off, and auto), built-in time delay (0 to 10 minutes), ...

Configurable logic blocks (CLBs) house the logic for the FPGA. Typically, these CLBs contain enough logic to create a small state machine. A CLB normally contains RAM to create arbitrary combinatorial ...

A microprocessor is a complex, programmable integrated circuit (IC) on a single chip that can execute instructions. This generally includes CPUs found in computers but also refers to the ...

The term "Bit Slicing" was once dominant in history books as a technique for constructing a processor from processor modules of smaller bit width where each of these components processes one field or ...

Interfacing real world devices to a microprocessor has become increasingly more difficult. It usually takes several discrete components to condition real world analog and digital before they can be ...

The circuit in Figure 1 uses only five I/O lines to drive a dot- or bar-graph display of 20 LEDs. Although this version of the design uses a small and inexpensive one-time-programmable microprocessor, ...

The name Intel has long been associated with microprocessors powering PCs, and more recently has been associated with a struggling semiconductor supplier trying to regain its footing in the AI era.