April 2000
Hitachi has announced the H8/3802 Series, an extremely low cost, low power device that completes the popular H8/300L 8-Bit Microcontroller Family. The H8/3802 incorporates an onboad LCD Controller and asynchronous event counter and boasts an extremely fast oscillator start up time that reduces power consumption to 1.8 V.
Available from Hitachi is a complete evaluation kit for the H8/3644F, 8-Bit microcontroller featuring on -vhip flash. Hitachi's liquid crystal displays include: Monochrome STN LCD modules and active matrix colour LCD modules.
T.E.C.
General
The status of reliabilty engineering in the SA electronics industry Part II
R W A Barnard (University of Pretoria) ,
Interview
Microprocessors, Microcontrollers and DSP
Implementing distributed intelligence for white goods applications
Scott Fink (Microchip Technology Inc.) ,
Product News
Software
Who is watching the software? Uses and abuses of watchdog timers
Terry Cousins (TLC Software) ,
Programming considerations for real-time I/O
Noam Levine and David Skolnick (Analog Devices) ,
Surge Protection
Lightning surge protection - the correct selection of components and devices
Grant Walliser (Prodigy Manufacturing (Pty) Ltd) ,
