Other than that, the only other chip of note on the board is the FTDI FT2232HL, a well-supported but most certainly not Free and Open Source USB to UART chip.

COMP_ENG 346: Microcontroller System Design VIEW ALL COURSE TIMES AND SESSIONS Prerequisites COMP_SCI 211 and (COMP_SCI 213 or COMP_ENG 205) Description Structure and timing of typical microprocessors ...

2. The interface on the microcontroller side accepts the CAT5e cable signal via the J1 RJ45 connector and bidirectional bus buffer U3, then passes it to the microcontroller. Note: R17 is added in ...

Images can be loaded from flash, memory, or SD cards, and he notes that best performance is gained with a microcontroller with fast SPI for writing to screens quickly.

Shih, Willy, and Margaret Pierson. "Renesas Electronics and the Automotive Microcontroller Supply Chain (A) (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 613-084, March 2013.

Microcontrollers are small and inexpensive. Security solutions have the reputation for being neither. With increasingly strict regulation and legislation, the need to balance the two is critical ...