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Microchip Announces Industry’s First Space-Qualified COTS-Based Radiation-Tolerant Ethernet Transceiver and Embedded Microcontroller

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Tuesday, January 14, 2020
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In addition to Microchips new VSC8541RT radiation-tolerant Ethernet transceiver sampling , the company received final qualification for the new SAM3X8ERT radiation-tolerant microcontroller , its latest Arm Cortex-M3 core processor and embedded Ethernet controller.

Key Points: 
  • In addition to Microchips new VSC8541RT radiation-tolerant Ethernet transceiver sampling , the company received final qualification for the new SAM3X8ERT radiation-tolerant microcontroller , its latest Arm Cortex-M3 core processor and embedded Ethernet controller.
  • They share the same pin-out distribution, allowing designers to begin implementation with COTS devices before moving to space-grade components.
  • The VSC8541RT transceiver is a single-port Gigabit Ethernet copper PHY with GMII, RGMII, MII and RMII interfaces.
  • Note: The Microchip name and logo, the Microchip logo and MPLAB are registered trademarks of Microchip Technology Incorporated in the U.S.A. and other countries.