COTS-to rad-tolerant devices products provide unique, scalable solutions to address the New Space Challenges.

From its not-so-humble beginnings in the early 1990s, the Controller Area Network (CAN) bus has expanded from its automotive and industrial roots to connect and interconnect control systems in some of the most dynamic industries on earth (and beyond). 

Well, summer may be winding down but the PCB designs continue to heat up! Over the last few weeks, we’ve seen an assortment of new hardware emerge — ranging from development boards in unusual form factors to crowdfunding campaigns on Crowd Supply, GroupGets, and Kickstarter.

Satellite electronics designers who have struggled with weight and board space restrictions will now be able to meet these stringent requirements thanks to our radiation hardened ICs.

Virtual Primary Reference Timing Clock (vPRTC) is a new concept for a highly secure and protected network-based timing architecture developed to meet the expanding needs of modern critical infrastructures. 

Learn to identify different types of jitter and how to filter/remove them to reduce the overall Bit Error Rate (BER) in your system.

Learn about development kits for accelerated FPGA application prototyping.

While there are many different sources of noise within an operational amplifier, perhaps the most mysterious and frustrating noise source is what is known as flicker noise. How does one deal with this dominating, low frequency noise? If 1/f noise is a big concern, then selecting a zero-drift amplifier is the best solution.

Learn how cattle tracking systems enable farmers to increase heard output and overall wellness. 

Learn how the chip scale atomic clock (CSAC) performs in a rapidly changing thermal environment.

Enhanced PRTC requires careful planning and commissioning.

Take one look around online communities, crowdfunding sites and marketplaces, and it won’t be difficult to find countless pieces of hardware powered by Microchip technology. 

Attached Devices: Form factors, connectors and backplanes. Compute Express Link™ (CXL™) addresses the growing memory bandwidth and capacity needs for processors to accelerate high-speed computing applications. Learn how leveraging existing PCIe 5.0 protocols will help the industry quickly transition to take advantage and adopt these new capabilities enabled by CXL.

Our Data Center Solutions team has invested in a comprehensive and intuitive toolset that can help speed up your time to market.

The MPLAB® Analog Designer is an easy-to-use online tool to start your PD power supply design.

NVMe SSD deployments are surging, fueling the need for new capacities, performance, power, connectivity and form factors.  Here’s what you need to know about emerging form factors available for your new design.

We can help you leverage Power over Ethernet (PoE) advantages for all IoT outdoor applications...

From crowdfunding sites and online marketplaces to hardware communities and social media, you can’t go far without stumbling upon a new design with a Microchip microcontroller at its core. Continuing on with our monthly series, here’s the next batch of boards that caught our attention in recent weeks.  

32-bit microcontrollers offer functional safety solutions for home, industrial and automotive applications. 

The importance of Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADCs) is growing – due to the need for systems to acquire distributed data and provide localized monitoring and diagnostics. That leaves designers to evaluate whether they should choose a microcontroller with an integrated ADC to meet these requirements or if they should use a standalone ADC. Read about how to evaluate the use cases of integrated ADCs vs. standalone ADCs.

Enterprise server solution providers must deliver enterprise class solutions with the required performance, security and reliability in a cost-effective manner. 

With the rapid growth of the 5G cellular infrastructure, growing networks and data centers supporting expanding cloud computing, developers need new ways to ensure operating systems remain secure and uncompromised.

FPGAs have surfaced as the platforms of choice for many new-age applications owing to their lower latency, configurability and power efficiency.

Serial-attached memory solutions using Compute Express Link have many benefits compared to parallel interfaces and can be used to replace or augment parallel memory solutions.

Adapt your analog domain knowledge to the latest digital systems and work with developers to implement competitive product features.

Add end-to-end embedded security to your next application using our embedded products.

Our ecosystem not only provides an array of logic performance options, but also a software toolchain that can enable unprecedented opportunities for code reuse and a learning curve that allows designers and developers to... 

We have developed an ecosystem of development hardware and software that not only eases the burdens of early design, but also enables a seamless transition to the production of embedded electronics. 

With modern MCUs/DSCs, IDEs, and an ecosystem of software libraries, code examples, application notes, reference designs, and development/evaluation boards, even novice motor control designers can rapidly develop and deploy professional solutions without having to...

This great discovery tool provides an encompassing overview of all of our analog and interface products. Once the presentation is open, a product line can be viewed by clicking on the box of interest and can then be drilled down to learn individual product details.

We offer MCUs, sensors, and development tools that allow for lower-cost sensor modules in smaller footprints, and eases development costs with richly featured development boards compatible with modular sensor boards.

“One size fits all” is becoming less of a viable electronic product strategy, be it for consumer or industrial applications. Flexibility and customizability of a user’s electronics is the new design paradigm. Every year, common electronic product categories are merging, gaining features and becoming more user oriented. Though multiplying features in electronics is the norm in the industry, the pace and number of features being implemented in the latest designs is accelerating. For electronic device designers and developers, this means that they now need to incorporate more features in the same, or even smaller, space as a previous design.

Just like consumers and end users of products, design engineers and developers are also seeking more options, flexibility and support from their hardware and software tool suppliers. We can help.

The use of zero-drift amplifiers continues to grow due to the superior dc precision that these devices offer. However, there is a downside to this performance – time domain limitations.  

We offer a host of hardware, software, third-party, and training solutions to help developers rapidly make pace with modern embedded graphics and accelerate time-to-market with graphics electronics.

The demand for analyzing data at the edge is a growing product requirement. Computing at the edge device instead of the cloud means that…. 

Take one look around online communities, crowdfunding sites and marketplaces, and it won’t be difficult to find countless pieces of hardware powered by Microchip technology. 

We offer several unique hardware and software solutions that aid real-time control designers in mitigating challenges and enable the development of competitive industrial electronic products.

A family of products that can be configured for multiple use applications.

The new age of universal connectivity has created a need for simple and secure solutions to connect to the cloud within a variety of embedded applications.

Today, many companies, small and large, are realizing the critical importance of adding security from the start of product development, rather than as an afterthought.  

Green initiatives are driving the transformation of power electronic system designs across major industries such as automotive, industrial, aerospace and defense. To reduce CO2 emissions, systems are moving toward electrification of power and motor applications.

Microchip is an innovator and thought leader in PoE technology, as well as a major contributor to the IEEE 802.3af, 802.3at and 802.3bt standards. 

Microchip is an innovator and thought leader in PoE technology, as well as a major contributor to the IEEE 802.3af, 802.3at and 802.3bt standards. 

With the right range of screen size options in the appliance touch screen controller family, appliance touch screen designs are more scalable, which ultimately shortens design time, and lowers system and development cost. 

Jumpstart your next embedded product from proof of concept to production with our Arm^® Cortex^® M0+ based SAM D21 Curiosity Nano Evaluation Kit.  

Our digital ceiling switch is unique as it enables IT managers to control and optimize power utilization in the most energy-efficient manner.

New Hello FPGA kit makes it easy to implement out of the box designs.

Take one look around online communities, crowdfunding sites and marketplaces, and it won’t be difficult to find countless pieces of hardware powered by Microchip technology. 

Learn how our innovations build an agile infrastructure of compute, memory and storage and also how technology advancements that both the industry and vendors like us are enabling to meet the needs of a composable platform.

Learn the other measures that should be considered for protecting the storage platform, from creating a system of trust to implementing cryptographic obscurity. 

Adopting the proper design thinking approach, along with a culture that embraces prototyping and rapid iteration, can improve time to market while reducing the capital and human costs of product development.

Through cloud computing, microcontrollers can perform very resource-intensive computations by outsourcing the work.

New architectures are needed to better utilize and optimize hardware assets spanning compute, memory and storage.

Learn what attestation measurements are and how they help prove to the platform what firmware is running.

Our MPLAB® development ecosystem now supports AVR® and SAM devices including SAM MPUs

Designing a feature-rich tankless water heater based on a dsPIC® digital signal controller.

Let’s Explore the Plight of the Software Developer.

This article discusses technology critical to the imaging systems used in veterinary care and our success in the veterinary ultrasound industry.

Improve your next design’s performance and speed up your time to market.

FlexE provides a layer of flexibility to close the gap between what networks require and the Ethernet rates that are standardized, while also enabling lower cost solutions.

In the first two parts of this series, we looked at multiple security threats in the server and storage industry. Now let’s look at some specific concerns and possible solutions to those problems. 

We are supporting a critical transition with an established ecosystem that leverages the demonstrated interoperability between our PM6010 DIGI-G5 OTN Processor and Acacia's AC1200 Coherent Module.

FlexPort technology for saving time, money, and ease-of-use in deploying a precise IRIG time synchronization solution like the SyncServer S650 makes a lot of sense.

As the healthcare industry for animals continues to grow, a good ultrasound system has become inevitable for veterinarians. Read this article and learn about the different veterinary ultrasound requirements for large versus small animals.

The GNSS signal has become increasingly vulnerable to a wide range of jamming and spoofing threats. Learn how you can provide signal visibility for better protection and security of GNSS reception.

The continued evolution of IoT technologies will push the boundaries of a smarter, more connected world.

Do your A/C system design challenges have you feeling the heat? This article will help you solve them. 

Attacks targeting your systems are disturbingly widespread – here's what you need to know. 

Attacks targeting your systems are disturbingly widespread – here's what you need to know. 

Securing the operational state of components has become an ever-increasing topic among the server and storage industry. While much of the industry has already secured the platforms upon which subcomponents operate, it’s important to understand that subcomponents are now the next step for applying a security model.

Smoke detector manufacturers will be required to have their new submissions meet new certification standards effective May 29, 2019 and to only manufacture their certified designs after May 29, 2020. We have developed integrated solutions to help enable our customers to implement the architectures to comply with the new requirements.

The building blocks of our digital era are smart, connected, secure and never tiring end devices. Applications ranging from consumer electronics to home appliances, industrial to automotive need a smart, connected and secure central computing unit. The attributes like high performance, flexibility, robustness, reliability, integrity and predictable response time are the key requisites for these applications.

In today’s automotive applications ISO26262 has become a critical element of passenger safety, as electric and electronic content has rapidly grown within cars. To help customers achieve the desired Automotive Safety Integrity Level (ASIL) certification, Microchip Technology’s dsPIC33 family is commonly used in digital power and motor control applications. Learn more.

The need to closely monitor currents in today’s electronics has increased over the years, as energy efficiency and safety have become major concerns. This article will focus specifically on the use of a shunt resistor to monitor current.

Remote car access systems provide today’s drivers with a variety of convenience and safety benefits. As the top supplier of wireless PEPS ICs to Tier 1 automotive OEMs, Microchip is “key” to hands-free interaction with modern vehicles. We offer turnkey solutions with the highest level of security to support several features.