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Reduce Switching Losses up to 50% While Accelerating Time to Market with the First Fully Configurable Digital Gate Driver for Silicon Carbide MOSFETs – Now Production Ready

“New technology enables electric buses and other e-transportation power systems to meet and exceed stringent environmental conditions while maximizing efficiency As demand for electric buses and other electrified heavy transport vehicles increases to meet lower emission targets, silicon carbide-based power …

Microchip Unveils Industry’s Most Compact 1.6T Ethernet PHY with Up to 800 GbE Connectivity for Cloud Data Centers, 5G and AI

“META-DX2L enables routers, switches and line cards to double their bandwidth by transitioning to 112G PAM4 interface rates. Routers, switches and line cards need higher bandwidth, port density and up to 800 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) connectivity to handle escalating …

Smart High Level Synthesis (HLS) Tool Suite Enables C++ Based Algorithm Development Using Microchip’s PolarFire® FPGA Platform

“Enhances Accessibility to PolarFire FPGAs for Hardware Acceleration in Edge Compute Systems. The need to combine performance with low power consumption in edge compute applications has driven demand for Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) to be used as power-efficient accelerators …

New Chip Scale Atomic Clock (CSAC) Provides Wider Operating Temperatures, Faster Warm-up and Improved Frequency Stability in Extreme Environments

“Microchip’s SA65 CSAC for military and industrial systems features ultra-high precision and low power consumption Advanced military platforms, ocean-bottom survey systems and remote sensing applications all require precise timing for mission success. Chip Scale Atomic Clocks (CSACs) ensure stable …

Mid-Range FPGAs Reach the Next Power and Performance Milestone for Edge Compute Systems

“Microchip’s new low-density PolarFire® devices consume half the static power of alternatives while providing world’s smallest thermal footprint Edge compute systems need compact programmable devices with low power consumption and a small enough thermal footprint to eliminate fans …

New I2C Serial EEPROM Introduces 3.4MHz High-Speed Mode Operation, Software Write-Protection and Factory Programmed Serial Numbers

“Industry First 3.4 MHz I2C Serial EEPROM Closes the Gap in Trade-Offs Between SPI and I2C Protocols I2C and SPI are two of the most widely used serial communication buses for embedded systems and each comes with its own …

First Aerospace-qualified Baseless Power Module Family Improves Aircraft Electrical System Efficiency

“Microchip’s BL1, BL2 and BL3 family, developed with the Clean Sky consortium, is qualified to stringent aerospace standards for AC-to-DC and DC-to-AC power conversion In the race to reduce aircraft emissions, developers increasingly are moving …

First Single-Chip Network Synchronization Solution Provides Ultra Precise Timing for 5G Radio Access Equipment

“Combines integration and performance in one compact, low-power device supported by Microchip’s widely deployed IEEE 1588 Precision Time Protocol (PTP) and synchronization algorithm software modules 5G technology requires time sources to be synchronized throughout a packet-switched network ten times …

Replace Silicon IGBTs with Industry’s Most Rugged Silicon Carbide Power Solutions Now Available at 1700V

“Today’s energy-efficient electric charging systems powering commercial vehicle propulsion, as well as auxiliary power systems, solar inverters, solid-state transformers and other transportation and industrial applications all rely on high-voltage switching power devices. To meet these requirements, Microchip Technology Inc …

Microchip Announces Production Shipments of Industry’s First NVMe and 24G SAS Tri-mode RAID and HBA Storage Adapters

“Adaptec® Smart Storage Adapters Provide Increased Performance, Security and Scalability While Simplifying Storage Management Cloud service providers and server original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) designing storage platforms demand exceptional performance, flexibility and security for the next generation of data centers. Microchip …