Chandler, Arizona. Microchip Technology released its PolarFire SoC Discovery Kit leveraging the PolarFire MPFS095T SoC FPGA highlighting a quad-core 64-bit CPU based on the RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture (ISA). The kit supports rapid examination of application concepts, firmware development, and code debugging.

The needs of embedded computing applications are constantly evolving, requiring versatile feature sets, rapid processing needs, reliable ruggedness, and more. The ability to maintain flexibility and programmability in one solution enables applications like automotive, industrial automation, AI & ML, IoT, and image and video processing to efficiently progress along with the ever-changing high-performance needs.

Microchip Technology launched its MCP998x family of automotive-qualified remote temperature sensors. The sensors are designed to provide 1°C accuracy over a wide operational temperature range. Within the family are five sensors equipped with shutdown temperature setpoints that are resistant to exploitation.

Memory is typically a very simple component in your embedded system—or is it? I spent some time with Barry Blixt, a Director for Microchip’s memory business. We went through a list of typical memory “myths” to determine what’s true and what’s not true. Does memory wear out? How about rotating memory? These are some of the topics we covered. Check out this week’s Embedded Executives podcast.

From predictive maintenance and image recognition, to remote asset monitoring and access control, the demand for industrial IoT applications capable of running machine learning (ML) models on local devices, rather than in the cloud, is growing rapidly.

Microchip is packing up in Chandler, Arizona and will start its trip to the RISC-V Summit in Santa Clara, California, November 7^th and 8^th, 2023, and November 6 being Member Day. Microchip will be demonstrating its market leading FPGA solutions for the intelligent edge and how it leverages the RISC-V ISA to design heterogenous processing architectures for non-proprietary instruction set architectures.

SiC technology is taking power electronics to new levels of efficiency and power density, solving key challenges as today’s global green initiatives transform entire industries including automotive, industrial, aerospace and defense.