According to Isuppli's 2004 microcontroller-unit-market forecast, 8-bit devices account for more than 40% of sales. However, the assumption behind the migration from legacy 8- and 16-bit applications ...

Back in the hazy days of the early home computers, many of us would rejoice at running our first BASIC applications, some of us even built our own 8-bit system from a handful of ICs and felt elated ...