Microchip Technology Incorporated is a leading provider of smart, connected and secure embedded control solutions. Its easy-to-use development tools and comprehensive product portfolio enable customers to create optimal designs, which reduce risk while lowering total system cost and time to market. The company’s solutions serve more than 120,000 customers across the industrial, automotive, consumer, aerospace and defence, communications and computing markets.
For the space market Microchip have a dedicated European business unit facility located in France and employs over 300 people in its Nantes, Rousset, and Ennis (Ireland) locations, with the capability to manage full product development from initial design to final space qualified device, working closely with ESA and CNES space agencies. With one of the industry’s most comprehensive space products portfolios, Microchip provide radiation-hardened and radiation-tolerant solutions including high-performance FPGAs, microcontrollers, microprocessors, communication interfaces, memories and digital and mixed-signal ASICs, precise frequency and timing solutions with space-grade oscillators, mixed-signal ICs, isolated DC-DC converter modules, custom power supplies, hybrid solutions, MOSFETs, diodes, transistors, RF components and custom solutions.