Interview with Thomas Souche, Technical Product Marketing Manager at Microchip Technology Inc. Microchip offers a compelling capacitive touch solution for every touch use case – from single buttons to touchpads and touchscreens to proximity detection and 3D gesture control for the consumer, industrial and automotive market.  Microchip offers turnkey touch controllers for buttons, sliders and wheels and integrated touch peripheral microcontrollers and software libraries. In our latest podcast,...

Interview with Diane Tosetti of Microchip’s FPGA Business Unit. The FPGA market is continuously growing and so is the demand for low power, reliability and security in FPGAs. In this podcast, Diane Tosetti, Senior Manager Business Development at Microchip, discusses the role of FPGA’s in Intelligent Edge applications and the range of interesting applications the PolarFire FPGA and PolarFire SoC families are enabling.  Microchip FPGAs help overcome power, system size and security challenges...

Interview with Bob Vampola, Vice President Aerospace and Defense at Microchip Technology Inc. As the No. 1 semiconductor supplier for Aerospace and Defense, Microchip understands the critical importance of building secure, robust and reliable electronic systems for aerospace and defense applications.  Microchip offers a range of power management, frequency and timing and RF and microwave products such as ASICs, FPGAs, mixed-signal ICs and MCUs. In our latest podcast, Bob Vampola, Vice...

Interview with Alan Jay Zwiren of Microchip’s PoE Business Unit. Power over Ethernet (PoE) is a revolutionary technology that enables delivery of power over standard Ethernet infrastructure to facilitate quick and easy installation of WLAN access points, network cameras, IP telephones and other IP-based devices. 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. Alan Jay Zwiren, Senior Product...

Interview with Chelsey Collimore of Microchip’s Automotive and Transportation Business Unit. EVs are becoming more autonomous through ADAS, using standards such as AUTOSAR and ISO 26262 and adopting a growing number of power regulation, communication and sensor solutions including CANbus, Ethernet and touch sensors. Microchip sees Automotive as one of our key market areas for the future and in our latest podcast, Chelsey Collimore, Marketing Specialist at Microchip, outlines what Microchip...

Interview with Bob Zona of Microchip’s Clock and Timing Business Unit. Clock and Timing solutions are essential for all types of digital systems, from the growing use of computing and communication in automotive to the extreme conditions of space. Bob Zona, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Microchip, talks about the company’s unique abilities in MEMS oscillators that make Microchip the leader in the clock and timing and field. With the broadest Clock and Timing portfolio in the industry,...

Interview with Fionn Sheerin of Microchip’s Power and Analog Business Unit. Although perhaps most famous for our microcontrollers and other digital products, Microchip has a very large power and analog portfolio, including AC-DC power conversion, DC-DC controllers, power management ICs and Digitally Enhanced Power Analog devices. Microchip sees power management, which is increasingly governed by software, of growing importance in new applications such as automotive and data centers. In our...

Interview with Perry Schugart of Microchip’s SiC Business Unit. Silicon Carbide has many advantages over conventional silicon, including high efficiency, faster switching speeds and wider temperature ranges, benefits that are increasingly making it the dominant semiconductor technology for many power devices. In our latest podcast, Perry Schugart, Head of Marketing for Microchip’s SiC Business Unit, tells how the company became a major SiC vendor with a range of industry leading SiC MOSFETs,...