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Microchip Wins Prestigious Technology Awards
CHANDLER, Ariz. --(Business Wire)--
Microchip Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: MCHP), a leading provider of
microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog and Flash-IP solutions, today
announced that it has been recognized by the following global
electronics industry publications and organizations for product
innovation and technology leadership.
After launching in November, Microchip won three prestigious awards for
its MGC3130, which offers low-power, precise, fast and robust hand
position tracking with free-space gesture recognition. The MGC3130,
featuring Microchip's patented GestIC®
technology, was handpicked by the editors of Electronic Design
Magazine for their "2012 Best of Electronic Design Awards," in the
Digital category, for enabling the next dimension in intuitive,
gesture-based, non-contact user interfaces for a broad range of end
products. EE Times China Magazine's "2013 Annual Creativity in
Electronics (ACE) Awards" selected the MGC3130 as a Product of the Year
in the Microcontroller/Memory/Interface category. EDN Magazine named the
MGC3130 to their "2012 Hot 100" list, in the Microcontrollers &
Processors category.
EE Times China also chose Microchip for two additional "ACE Products of
the Year." The 70 MIPS dsPIC33E
and PIC24E family of digital signal controllers and microcontrollers
won in the Digital Processor (News - Alert)/DSP/FPGA category, and the MPLAB®
XC C compiler line won in the EDA/Tools category.
Likewise, EDN Magazine named a total of six Microchip products to its
annual "Hot 100" list, which their editors selected from "the many
thousands of products announced during the past year." In the Analog
category, Microchip's MCP47A1
digital-to-analog converter was honored; and the 23A1024/23LC1024,
23A512/23LC512, 23LCV51/23LCV1024 serial SRAM family, which
includes a battery-backed non-volatile option, was chosen in the Memory
& Storage category. Two products were selected in the Boards &
Development Tools category, including the MPLAB
XC C compiler line, which represents Microchip's simplified and
integrated compiler strategy, as well as the RN-131
and RN-171 PICtail™/PICtail Plus Wi-Fi®
development boards with the TCP/IP stack integrated on the
module, enabling wireless connectivity for any microcontroller via a
serial interface. Finally, the PIC12LF1840T48A,
which integrates an 8-bit microcontroller with an RF transmitter for
secure-access applications, was chosen for EDN's RF/Microwave category.
The venerable 8-bit PIC® microcontroller was also named a
finalist in Design News Magazine's "2012 Golden Mousetrap Awards."
Specifically, the PIC10F(LF)32X
and PIC1XF(LF)150X MCUs with integrated configurable logic in 6-
to 20-pin packages got the nod in their Electronics & Test: Embedded
Computing/Processing category.
Microchip's JukeBlox®
3.1 Wireless Audio Platform, based on technology from its recent
SMSC acquisition, won a 2012 "Readers' Choice Tech Award" from ECN
Magazine in the Boards and Modules category. Winners were named by the
editors of ECN, based on their assessment of readers' newsletter clicks,
Web traffic and social-media engagement for each of the man products
they covered during the year.
In addition to the three EE Times China ACE Awards, China's trade press
bestowed three other annual product awards on Microchip. The MCP6N11
Instrumentation Amplifier won two honors, one from EDN China's
"Innovation Awards" in the Leading Product category, and the other from
EEPW Magazine's "Power Supply Products Awards" in the Best Application:
Power Devices category. From their separate "Editors' Choice Awards,"
EEPW named Microchip's AR1100
mTouch™ Analog Resistive Touch Screen Controller their Best
Touch Panel Solution.
In the area of technology leadership, The Embedded
Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium (EEMBC) honored Microchip
for significantly contributing to the development of its next-generation
industry benchmarks. Specifically, Microchip was recognized for
determining fair and reliable cross-platform accuracy requirements for
EEMBC's (News - Alert) FPBench™ benchmark, which is critical to the evaluation of
floating-point performance. Additionally, Microchip evaluated and
recommended math function libraries for software-only reference
implementations, and tested and ported multiple libraries to make
FPBench safe for 16-bit microcontrollers.
"It is a testament to Microchip's continuous-improvement culture that we
have received this recognition from an esteemed organization such as
EEMBC, as well as product awards from some of the most influential
global publications in our industry," said Steve Sanghi, Microchip's
president and CEO. "The breadth of these product awards across the
diverse categories of human interface, microcontrollers, DSP, wireless
networking, audio, analog, memory and development tools illustrates the
continued investments we are making-both in R&D and strategic
acquisitions-to enable our customers' innovation."
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About Microchip Technology
Microchip Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: MCHP) is a leading provider of
microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog and Flash-IP solutions, providing
low-risk product development, lower total system cost and faster time to
market for thousands of diverse customer applications worldwide.
Headquartered in Chandler, Arizona, Microchip offers outstanding
technical support along with dependable delivery and quality. For more
information, visit the Microchip website at http://www.microchip.com/get/F8BD.
Note: The Microchip name and logo, GestIC, PIC, MPLAB, and
JukeBlox are registered trademarks of Microchip Technology Inc. in the
USA and other countries. PICtail, and mTouch are trademarks of
Microchip Technology Inc. in the USA and other countries. All
other trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective
companies.
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