I have done lots of these Embedded Executive podcasts, a few hundred in fact. This particular podcast goes in a direction I have never gone before, and involves the mafia (yes, you read that correctly).

Microchip Technology announced the maXTouch Knob on Display (KoD) controller as the first automotive-grade touchscreen controller family to natively support the detection and reporting of capacitive rotary encoders, as well as mechanical switches on top of a touch panel.

When designing safety critical systems, the international safety standards are critical of us to select the appropriate processes and adequate techniques to detect and avoid dangerous faults in the end-product. The standards ensure that we do not fall into the same pits as our fellow safety engineers before us.

IoT network developers are looking for an easy path to implement a secure cellular connection in their design applications but are faced with design complexities and high deployment costs. Microchip Technology Inc.'s new AVR-IoT Cellular Mini Development Board, based on the AVR128DB48 8-bit microcontroller (MCU), provides network designers a robust platform with location flexibility, low power consumption, and deployment facility to start building sensor and actuator nodes on 5G narrowband IoT networks.

Extending the broad line of inductive position sensors into the EV motor control market, Microchip Technology announced the LX34070 IC purpose-built for EV motor control applications.

As customers continue to adopt PolarFire SoC FPGAs, Microchip Technology announced the production qualification for the MPFS250T and the previously announced MPFS025T. Microchip also announced that its Mi-V ecosystem continues to streamline RISC-V adoption.

On this episode of Embedded Insiders, Brandon and Rich explore the imminent ratification of the MATTR standard and what opportunities it could introduce in real, regular life situations.