To ensure that the microprocessor-reset circuit recognizes the —MR event, C1's value should be large enough—with respect to the internal —MR pullup resistor—to hold the —MR input voltage ...

Maxim Integrated Products has introduced low-power (less than 1.2microamps), microprocessor supervisory circuits that feature precision power-supply monitoring and battery-control functions.

Analog Devices, Inc., has expanded its portfolio of supervisory ICs with new low-power microprocessor supervisory circuits for monitoring under-voltage conditions in handheld industrial instruments, ...

We recently looked at the origins of the integrated circuit (IC) and the calculator, which was the IC’s first killer app, but a surprise twist is that the calculator played a big part in the … ...

The invention of the microprocessor, DRAM, and EPROM integrated circuits would spark the widespread use of the BASIC high-level language variants, which would lead to the introduction of the GUI ...

The Motorola 6800 microprocessor originally used enhancement-mode transistors. To operate off a single +5V supply, it had a voltage-doubler circuit on the chip. 14.

Fifty years ago this month, Intel introduced the first commercial microprocessor, the 4004. Microprocessors are tiny, general-purpose chips that use integrated circuits made up of transistors to ...

The chip is an integrated circuit version of the non-integrated CPU found in much larger TI-990 series of minicomputers, and while TI likely intended it to simplify that line of machines, the ...

There's little doubt that the microprocessor was the single greatest development in circuit integration in the seventies. But other developments were taking place that led to much greater ...

Generally considered as the first truly usable microprocessor, the chip ran at 2 megahertz and powered the Altair 8800 and the IMSAI 8080, two of the first Personal Computers. Housed in a 40-pin DIP ...