We take a look at the Curiosity Platform Development Board from Microchip, an easy-to-use and flexible platform for developing with Microchip dsPIC33A DSCs and PIC32A MCUs.

DigiKey & Microchip at embedded world 2025! Explore the newest embedded design innovations, including Microchip's PIC32A family. Discover key features and insights for embedded system development live from the DigiKey booth.

Microchip & DigiKey experts discuss using FPGAs and the PIC16F13145 in embedded design, highlighting their flexibility and performance. They also introduce tools like the CLB synthesizer for easier FPGA design.

This video discusses Microchip Technology's wide portfolio of MEMs and crystal oscillator solutions.

We take a look at the PolarFire System on Chip FPGA Discovery Kit from Microchip, an open source FPGA development kit for rapid testing of industrial IoT, smart embedded vision, edge communications and other compute intensive applications.

Timing specifications typically include parameters such as "Phase Noise" and "Jitter", which are related to a clock's Phase Domain Spectral Power Density.

Engineers are typically accustomed to thinking in the Voltage Domain, but to understand Timing, one needs to understand how to think in the Phase Domain.

Phase Power Spectral Density -- more commonly called “Phase Noise” in Timing applications – is explained in this video and compared to FM radio modulation.

This video describes how phase noise is measured and how these measurements are used to determine whether a clock meets phase noise mask specifications for a given device.

This video explores Time Interval Error (TIE), the deviation between a real clock's rising edge and an ideal clock's edge.

Microchip’s Expert Sieg Schmalz describes some of the other parameters that engineers use to determine whether a clock is a good fit for a given application. These parameters include rise and fall time, slew rate, duty cycle, propagation delay, skew.

The video explains the relationship between Time Interval Error (TIE) and Phase Noise plots, illustrating how phase noise at specific frequency offsets represents the combined phase power of clock edges.

Microchip’s expert Sieg Schmalz explores Frequency Stability, how to quantify it, and provides some examples to illustrate the concept.

Microchip’s Expert Sieg Schmalz contrasts stability vs. average value and stability vs. accuracy. He also explains how these parameters are described in a typical Timing Source data-sheet.

Microchip’s expert Sieg Schmalz provides a definition of Clock Phase as it pertains to timing applications and provides some examples of describing phase.

Microchip’s Expert Sieg Schmalz defines an ideal clock and begins to explore what makes a clock "good enough" for a given application.

Microchip’s expert Sieg Schmalz discusses the relationship between Frequency and Phase, as well as how to quantify Phase Error and Frequency Error.

Microchip’s Expert Sieg Schmalz shares how our relationships with clocks change when looking at them through the lens of timing applications.

Microchip’s low-cost PolarFire® SoC Discovery Kit—an open-source development kit that provides a solution. Whether you’re a developer, hobbyist, or student, this kit serves as your gateway to the exciting realms of RISC-V and FPGA technology.

At embedded world 2024, on the DigiKey booth, Kristian McCann speaks with Ian Saturley, Sr. Manager, Strategic Marketing - USB & Networking Group at Microchip with PCIe Peripheral solutions.