All items tagged with PC and obsolete (6)

| Although PCB designers go through a lot of effort to make board assembly as easy as possible, who hasn’t run into a PCB with an incorrect fo...

| Some components can generate considerable heat. Just think of voltage regulators, the beefier types of CPU and microcontroller, MOSFETs carr...

| For years and years most microcontrollers (MCUs) have been designed around an 8-bit core. They have become so widespread that many MCU syste...

| Many new PCs now come equipped with one or more PCI Express slots on the motherboard. Eventually, PCI Express will make the old PCI standard...

| In this second instalment we will look at the actual application of this microcontroller in greater detail. Notably the ‘in system programmi...

| The development of a PCI based expansion card is relatively complex and usually needs a large investment of time and money before success is...