Touchscreen displays are an integral part of every modern-day payment system and point of sale (POS) terminal. Touchscreens greatly enhance the aesthetic appeal of payment terminals, while offering a modern control modality familiar to users of cellphones, tablets, and touchscreen laptops. Despite these benefits, touchscreens add additional security vulnerabilities from determined card thieves that must be addressed.

Welcome to the podcast portion of our Engineering Heroes series, where we recognize design engineers and developers who do amazing work that impacts countless lives around the world.

Chandler, Arizona. Microchip Technology released the compact 5071B cesium atomic clock delivering autonomous time keeping of 100 ns holdover for months in case of GNSS rejections.  The solution is delivered in a three-unit height (3U) 19-inch rackmount enclosure for easy mobility.

On this episode of Embedded Insiders, Steve Sanghi, founder and former chief executive officer of Microchip Technology, joins the Insiders to speak about the release of his book, which highlights the executives’ personal journey from growing up in small town in northern India, to his success in becoming a renowned semiconductor industry leader.

Overview: On-chip logic and flexibility peripherals improve applications by reducing code size, lowering power consumption, and improving system performance by implementing discrete logic and/or connecting other peripherals together.

Chandler, Arizona. Microchips’s radiant tolerant (RT) Ethernet PHY family has a new member in its VSC8574RT PHY, an optional approach when modifying traditional connectivity interfaces to more efficient Ethernet solutions. For a simple substitution for a deployment ready RT device, the VCS8574RT PHY utilizes Microchip’s Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) based device. Bob Vampola, Vice President of Microchip’s Aerospace and Defense Business Unit said, “Ethernet solutions are in high demand for space applications, and our COTS-to-RT devices offer increased capabilities with multiport, SGMII and fiber interfaces.”

Chandler, Arizona. Microchip released two reclocker/redriver devices supporting long-distance reliable USB transmissions up to 15 meters and compatible with USB 3.2 Generation 1 SuperSpeed protocol. The automotive EQCO510 and industrial EQCO5X31 reclocker/redriver devices transmits data signals at 5 Gbps in both directions.