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10BASE-T1S MPoE Sustainability Demo
| This demo showcases how 10BASE-T1S can be used in the sustainability megatrend, enabling the connection of a heat pump with a lean cloud-based home automation application. The demo simulates the all-Ethernet connectivity of various devices in a home-heating automation system within a two-room house, featuring an external heat pump connected to room controllers via 40 meters of total cable length. The demo also features Multidrop Power over Ethernet (MPoE) according to IEEE 802.3da specification.
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Advanced Motor Control With Bluetooth®
| See how real-time motor control and wireless connectivity can run on a single MCU with the PIC32 BZ6. In this demo, a motorized door driven by a Field-Oriented Controlled (FOC) Brushless DC (BLDC) motor responds to commands sent over Bluetooth® LE from a smartphone while maintaining smooth operation.
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Bi-Axis Inductive Position Sensing
| This demo shows the high-precision control of a joystick using an inductive-position sensor Integrated Circuit (IC), improving reliability, performance and supply concerns. Typical joystick controls use multiple ICs to track a two-axis position (X and Y), but with our IC and sensor design, this can be done with one. This solution replaces mechanical potentiometers, which are notorious for major wear-out issues such as control drift, and Hall Effect sensors, which are sensitive to stray magnetic fields and global supply challenges.
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Bluetooth Gesture-Controlled Robotic Hands
| Experience real-time gesture control and wired/wireless bridging on a single MCU with the PIC32 BZ6. In this demo, a camera captures hand gestures that are transmitted wirelessly over Bluetooth LE, then bridged by the PIC32 BZ6 onto 10BASE‑T1S to drive responsive robotic hands.
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Development Tools
| Try out an interactive touchscreen experience showcasing our development tools ecosystem. It includes partner integrations and live demonstrations of MPLAB® Tools for Microsoft® Visual Studio® Code (VS Code®), MPLAB Code Configurator, MPLAB AI Coding Assistant and MPLAB Data Visualizer along with an overview of our academic program and embedded systems textbook.
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dsPIC33A DSC MICROSAR® IO Demo
| This demo shows the outcome of our collaboration with Vector Informatik, featuring two Local Interconnect Network (LIN)-connected edge nodes (motor control and lighting) running Vector’s MICROSAR IO stack. |
Edge AI: Keyword Spotting Solution
| This demo features a lightweight embedded AI model running on our SAMA7 microprocessor (MPU) for always-on keyword spotting at the edge. The solution performs local Machine Learning (ML) inference to detect wake words and command phrases in real time, which reduces latency, bandwidth usage and cloud dependency while preserving user privacy. It demonstrates how optimized edge AI models can bring intelligent voice interfaces to production-ready embedded systems.
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Edge AI: MuseBox by MakarenaLabs on PolarFire® SoC
| This demo displays real-time edge AI video analytics powered by MakarenaLabs’ MuseBox that is running on our PolarFire FPGA. It showcases hardware-accelerated inference, including face, object and gesture detection, with a no-code GUI for rapid AI pipeline creation and live visualization from video and camera inputs. |
Intelligent Face Recognition With Real-Time Spoof Detection
| The eGate demo showcases secure, contactless access control using face recognition with liveness detection. A reference electronic gate setup is used to showcase real-time identification and verification so that only live, authorized individuals are recognized and granted access. The solution prevents spoofing attempts by detecting photos or videos.
All machine learning inference is performed locally on the SAMA7D65, a single-core Arm® Cortex®-A7 core-base microprocessor (MPU) part of the SAMA7 product line. The custom models are optimized for the device, enabling fast and reliable operation in production environment. The demo highlights the SAMA7D65 MPU’s capability to support AI applications for access control, smart buildings and embedded vision.
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KLARQ Robot Dog
| The KLARQ Robot Dog autonomously patrols, detects threats with real-time on-device computer vision, identifies specific objects and executes its mission to safeguard valuables, all without the cloud. This demo showcases the seamless convergence of physical AI and cybersecurity through its encrypted AI model, which is bound to a single chip and continuous attestation and Firmware Over-the-Air (FOTA). The brain of KLARQ is powered by our Trust Anchor (TA101) and Kudelski Labs' keySTREAM, making it an excellent example of innovation at the intersection of autonomous robotics, edge computing and robust cybersecurity.
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Time Synchronization With Redundancy Using the LAN9645x GbE Switch
| This demo shows our flexible multi-port Gigabit Ethernet switch for industrial applications with Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) and HSR/PRP redundancy.
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Low-Power Touch Keypad Lock
| Our secure, low-power touch keypad showcases the robust touch sensing and responsive embedded control of the PIC32CM PL10. It detects capacitive key presses, validates a PIN and controls a lock with clear LED/buzzer feedback.
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maXTouch® Moisture Immunity
| This demo features our patented differential capacitive touch sensing algorithm embedded into our maXTouch touchscreen controller to provide strong moisture immunity and thick glove support. The technology is crafted for outdoor applications such as two-wheelers, EV charging stations, ruggedized tablets and marine equipment.
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MPU Partner Graphics Solutions
| We have long been recognized for the Microchip Graphics Suite, a powerful and versatile tool suite supporting GUI capabilities across the full range of our embedded devices. But there’s even more to explore—our products are also compatible with many popular third-party graphics solutions. This demo highlights exactly that, showcasing a variety of partner graphic solutions, including LVGL, Qt for MCUs, Crank and Embedded Wizard by Tara Systems. These solutions are running on our low-cost, low-power microprocessors, the SAM9x75 and SAMA7D65, with displays in a range of resolutions, shapes and sizes. The demo shows how these graphics solutions can be leveraged for diverse applications spanning the industrial, automotive and medical sectors.
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PCIe® and Networking - Coherence and Diagnostics
| Our high-speed connectivity demo incorporates Automotive SerDes Alliance Motion Link (ASA-ML) cameras and videos, NVIDIA® SoCs and our PCI Express® (PCIe) switches to connect processors for AI inferencing. This technology showcases a variety of benefits, including low latency; high bandwidth; Direct Memory Access (DMA) acceleration; fault isolation; Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) virtualization and scalable, multi-host architecture beyond traditional Non-Transparent Bridge (NTB) limits.
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PolarFire® Ethernet Sensor Bridge to NVIDIA® Holoscan
| The PolarFire Ethernet Sensor Bridge is a hardware platform designed for rapid development of edge AI applications. It features dual, 10G Small Form-factor Pluggable (SFP) Ethernet ports for connection to NVIDIA Jetson™ AGX Orin and IGX platforms, enabling high-bandwidth data transfer. Onboard interfaces include two MIPI CSI-2® receiver ports for camera input. An FPGA Mezzanine Connector (FMC) allows for future expansion and support of additional sensor interfaces, such as CoaXPress, SLVS-EC™, SDI and JESD204B. It provides low-latency sensor data acquisition and pre-processing for applications in robotics, automotive, health care and embedded vision.
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Post-Quantum Firmware Verification with Embedded Controllers
| Our new MEC175xB embedded controller introduces CNSA 2.0-approved post-quantum cryptographic algorithms while providing configurable CNSA 1.0, CNSA 2.0 or hybrid secure boot solutions to maintain low-power and advanced eSPI of its predecessors.
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Reliable Power Sequencing Using Configurable Logic
| This demo shows how our Configurable Logic Block (CLB)—a programmable hardware logic engine built into the PIC18-Q35 microcontroller—can replace multiple dedicated power management chips with a single device, without writing any software. These functions that would typically require three separate ICs to run simultaneously on one MCU, including a voltage monitor that detects if a power supply goes too high or too low, a smart push button controller with customizable timing and a power sequencer that brings multiple power rails up and down in the correct order.
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Robotics Wall
| Discover the future of intelligent automation at our Robotics Wall, where we showcase a dynamic range of technologies and solutions built to make robots more capable, efficient, connected and safe. Explore end-to-end building blocks spanning sense and perception, edge AI, advanced motor control, power and energy, secure connectivity and functional safety that accelerate everything from industrial automation to next-generation mobile and humanoid platforms.
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SDI-to-HDMI® Cross-Converter on PolarFire FPGAs
| This demo highlights our latest SDI-to-HDMI cross-converter solution, supporting dynamic rate switching and embedded audio across all SDI standards from 1.5G to 12G, and a standard HDMI IP for seamless interoperability. Built on PolarFire FPGAs, the design delivers 2× better power efficiency, enabling compact, fanless systems that are an excellent choice for converters, broadcast, Pro AV, professional displays and monitors. The solution offers proven reliability and flexibility to meet the growing demands of professional video and display applications.
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Secure Firmware Over-The-Air (FOTA) for IoT
| This demo highlights secure Firmware Over-The-Air (FOTA) updates using the EV89U05A kit and ATECC608 secure element, provisioned via TrustManager and connected to the Kudelski Labs’ keySTREAM cloud. Devices are securely provisioned with cryptographic credentials, including a public key from a keySTREAM-generated key pair. Firmware updates are signed in keySTREAM using the private key, then verified on-device before installation for authenticity and integrity.
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SLVS-EC™ 3.0 to Multi-Channel CoaXPress 2.0
| This demo showcases our newest PolarFire FPGA-based solution for bridging SLVS-EC 3.0 and CoaXPress 2.0, which are high-speed transceiver-based interfaces widely adopted in advanced vision systems.
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| Tactile Sensing with maXTouch® Technology for Robotic Hands | By using our maXTouch technology-based capacitive touch sensing, humanoid robots can sense the forces in each finger and palm during physical interactions with unfamiliar objects. This informs the robot on how to grasp and move the objects around swiftly and stably. See this technology in action through our robotic hand prototype.
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TS1800 Data Center Demo
| The TS1800 is an external root of trust controller with Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) hardware integrations made to future-proof critical data center applications. It uses PQC to perform secure boot, secure updates, rollback protection and crisis recovery. This demo demonstrates how the TS1800 is implemented in real-world data center environments.
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Wi-Fi® Machine Learning (ML) Predictive Maintenance
| This predictive maintenance solution for electric motors and rotating equipment incorporates an ML model with salient features such as low power, security and wireless connectivity for IoT cloud platforms.
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X1 Fold Foldable Touchscreen OLED With Knob-on-Display™ (KoD™) Technology and User Detection
| See our latest, highest-performance maXTouch® technology using our new M1-generation product family in this flexible, bendable and foldable OLED display panel with the innovative KoD technology. Through user detection, the demo can support up to 16 simultaneous touches, enabling advanced gestures like pinching, rotating and stretching. The primary target of this technology is the automotive market, but it can extend to industrial, medical and gaming applications.
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