List of common microcontrollers

Headquartered in Hsinchu Science Park, the Silicon Valley of Taiwan, ELAN's microcontroller product range includes the following: These are clones of the 12- and 14-bit Microchip PIC line of processors, but with a 13-bit instruction word.

DAVE3, a component based auto code generation free tool, provides faster development of complex embedded projects.

Renesas is a joint venture comprising the semiconductor businesses of Hitachi, Mitsubishi Electric and NEC Electronics, creating the largest microcontroller manufacturer in the world.

Manufactures a line of 8-bit 8051-compatible microcontrollers, notable for high speeds (50–100 MIPS) and large memories in relatively small package sizes.

In 2012, the company introduced ARM-based mixed-signal MCUs with very low power and USB options, supported by free Eclipse-based tools.

[2] The Stellaris and Tiva families, in particular, provide a high level of community-based, open source support through the TI e2e forums.