US semiconductor firm Texas Instruments (TI) just revealed what it claims is “the world’s smallest microcontroller (MCU).” ...
It’s generally pretty easy to spot a microcontroller on a PCB. There are clues aplenty: the more-or-less central location, the nearby crystal oscillator, the maze of supporting passives, and perhaps ...
If you thought the Raspberry Pi's chip was dinky, well, get a load of the nattily named Texas Instruments MSPM0C1104, said to the world's smallest microcontroller or MCU and measuring a mere 1.38 mm².
According to Texas Instruments, it has developed the smallest microcontroller available, expanding the company's Arm Cortex-M0+ MSPM0 MCU portfolio. The 1.38-mm 2 wafer chip-scale packaged (WCSP) ...