Microchip Technology is a leading provider of smart, connected, and secure embedded control solutions, including a comprehensive portfolio of space-grade products. They supply radiation-hardened and radiation-tolerant solutions such as FPGAs, microcontrollers, microprocessors, and memory devices. Microchip has a long history of providing high-reliability products for space programs, working closely with agencies like ESA and CNES, and serving customers in the aerospace and defense sectors.
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Microchip Technology funded its own research and development work for the processor.
Microchip Technology expects the processor architecture developed for space missions to be adapted later for aerospace and automotive applications.
Microchip Technology developed the processor under a 2022 partnership with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Microchip Technology, BAE Systems Electronic Systems, Honeywell Aerospace, and SkyWater Technology are among the domestic qualified fabs listed in the Defense Microelectronics Activity Trusted Foundry Program.
Microchip Technology, BAE Systems Electronic Systems, Honeywell Aerospace, and SkyWater Technology are publicly confirmed participants in the DMEA Trusted Foundry Program.
Fortis uses Microchip Technology components including PolarFire FPGAs, space- and defense-grade processors, precision timing modules, and high-reliability networking components.
Sidus Space is developing its Fortis C&DH platform with Microchip Technology.
Microchip Technology is a core supplier of flight-qualified radiation-hardened processors and digital integrated circuits.
The technologies developed by Microchip flew on earlier AI eXpress missions in 2025 and are planned for integration into D-Orbit's next-generation avionics.
Microchip is using AI eXpress missions to validate and characterize its PolarFire SoC and VectorBlox acceleration IP for radiation-tolerant AI-capable onboard computing.
UA Power Group will open the Multi-User Silicon Carbide Research and Fabrication Laboratory to advance microchip production and foster collaboration between academia and the semiconductor industry.
The Graz Institute of Space Research was responsible for the sensor electronics in the magnetometer, featuring a miniaturized radiation-resistant microchip.
The microchip developed for SWFO-L1 measures just four by five millimeters in size.
The microchip used in SWFO-L1 has been successfully used on NASA's four MMS satellites and the South Korean weather satellite GEO-KOMPSAT-2A.
The Moog Cascade SBC was developed through an internal research and development program in association with Microchip Technology.
Maher Fahmi is the Corporate Vice President of Microchip Technology's communications business unit.
The Moog Cascade SBC features Microchip's PIC64-HPSC microprocessor, which is a radiation-hardened, 10-core, RISC-V® processor.
The collaboration between Moog and Microchip has allowed for an accelerated development cycle and faster time to market.
Microchip Technology offers the SAMD21RT radiation-tolerant Arm Cortex-M0+ based 32-bit microcontroller (MCU).
In 2024, a similar Microchip PolarFire RISC-V Linux avionics package and data server will fly to the Moon with a commercial customer along with a SpaceBilt-sponsored ARMAS radiation sensor to collect qualitative data on Phison M.2 SSD performance in the cislunar and lunar surface environment.