STMicroelectronics has come up with a lower cost 8-bit STM series microcontroller in the SO-8 package. With a price tag as low as 200 cents for orders of 1000 pieces, the STM8S001 has I2C, UART, and SPI interfaces. And the memory offering is good too – 8kbyte flash, 1kbyte RAM, 128-byte EEPROM, and there is ...

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