The three key areas of difference between microprocessors and microcontrollers are hardware structure, application area, and instruction set characteristics.

Boasting of a 50x performance gain over original 8051 microcontrollers and a six-fold gain over the next-fastest 8051s, the DS89C420 is said to be the first 8051-compatible controller ...

Keil is a market leader in software development tools for the 8051- and ARM-based microcontrollers. The enhancements to the Keil PK51 toolchain enable embedded software developers to make full use of ...

June 18, 2001, Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey - Semiconductor intellectual property (IP) provider, CAST, Inc., announced today that Transilica Inc. has chosen the company's 8051-compatible microprocessor ...