Microchip joins the defense agency’s innovation initiative that gives its researchers better access to commercial technologies and tools.

META-DX2L enables routers, switches, and line cards to double their bandwidth by transitioning to 112G PAM4 interface rate.

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 while also providing flexibility and speeding time to market. However, a large majority of edge compute, computer vision, and industrial control algorithms are developed natively in C++ by developers with little or no knowledge of underlying FPGA hardware.

Critical infrastructure services such as telecommunications, utilities, transportation, and defense require Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) technology to operate. But the ubiquitous use of the Global Positioning System (GPS) as the primary source of PNT information has introduced vulnerabilities.

I²C and SPI are two of the most widely used serial communication buses for embedded systems, and each comes with its own set of advantages and disadvantages. SPI is the faster protocol, but that comes at the expense of higher pricing and limited scalability.

Microchip Technology announced its development with Clean Sky, a joint European Commission (EC) and industry consortium, on the first aerospace-qualified baseless power modules designed to enable higher-efficiency, lighter, and more compact power conversion and motor drive systems.

The system 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.