Microchip Technology excels in microcontrollers, analog ICs, and memory products essential for embedded systems and industrial electronics. Their innovations include low-power MCUs, advanced ADCs, and integrated communication modules. Microchip’s broad portfolio supports automotive, IoT, and consumer electronics sectors. Electronics Weekly highlights Microchip’s product launches, acquisitions, and technology partnerships that drive advancements in system design and power management.
Microchip has introduced a 15W radiation-rated dc-dc converter for space use. Intended to be fed from a satallite’s 28V bus (22V to 42V, 50V abs max), SA15-5-5T has three isolated 5V 1A outputs that can be paralleled for more current or connected in series for higher voltages. Output ripple is <1%, and operation is over-55 to 125°C, with de-rating above ...
Microchip has created a 78ps-resolution 20bit PWM timer block for a series of MCUs for GaN and SiC based dc-dc converters. There are 16 of them to implement 16 power rails, plus eight 16bit 1.25ns PWMs. The family, dsPIC33AK512MPS512, combines these PWMs with five of the company’s recent 12Bit 40Msample/s ADCs and backs them up with a 200MHz 32bit processing ...
I missed this one before, when it was announced at Electronica: the Uno SPE Shield, created by Arduino and Microchip working together.
Microchip is aiming at analogue sensors with a microcontroller that can measure signals while consuming less than 3µA while sleeping with one comparator monitoring an in-coming voltage. Called PIC16F17576, it has a power-saving ‘analogue peripheral manager’ (APM). “The APM controls which peripherals are active to minimise total energy consumption and enable battery-operated applications,” according to the company. Inside the APM ...
Microchip has achieved JANSF qualification for a 100V n-channel mosfet to to 300krad (Si) TID (total ionising dose), and completed its family of radiation-hardened power mosfets to MIL-PRF-19500/746 slash-sheet specification. “The JANS qualification represents the highest level of screening and acceptance requirements, ensuring the superior performance, quality and reliability of discrete semiconductors for aerospace, defense and spaceflight applications,” according to ...
Microchip has added high-performance analogue blocks to its PIC32 MCUs: 12bit 40Msample/s ADCs, 5ns comparators and 100MHz GBW (gain.bandwidth) op-amps. There are implemented in in the new 32bit 200MHz PIC32A family. On top of the analogue blocks are hardware safety and security features such as ECC (error code correction) on flash and ram, built-in memory self-test, IO integrity monitoring, clock ...
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Adding LoRaWAN comms to a rain guage, with the system featuring a Microchip ATmega328P processor and a Littelfuse TMR (tunnel magnetoresistance) sensor...
Microchip has combined a chip-scale caesium atomic clock for good accuracy with a ovened crystal oscillator for good phase noise, in a through-hole package measuring 0.4 x 50.4 x 12.7mm (2 x 2 x 0.5inch, both plus pins). The crystal oscillator “offers phase noise at 10Hz [of] <-120 dBc/Hz and Allan deviation stability of <10-11 at a 1s averaging time. ...
further trade restrictions on China, Pat Gelsinger leaving Intel, modernising the U.S. Space Surveillance Network (SSN), BAE planning to recruit 2,400 people in the UK, and Microchip closing its Tempe wafer fab...
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