Microchip offer a variety of solutions to support the development of embedded systems using a variety of high-speed networking and video technologies, including ARCNET, CoaXPress®, DisplayPort, Ethernet, HD-SDI, IEEE® 1394b (FireWire), MOST®, Optical Transport Network (OTN), Synchronous Optical Networking/Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SONET/SDH), T1/E1 and Fiber-to-the-Home/Passive Optical Network (FTTH/PON) protocols.

ARCNET and CircLink Controllers

ARCNET has many characteristics that make it ideal for industrial and embedded networking environments. These include its deterministic nature, its high reliability and fault tolerance, and its adaptability to a wide variety of cabling media and configurations. As the market leader in ARCNET devices, we offer a full spectrum of solutions to meet your price and performance needs.

CircLink, an ARCNET derivative, further improves on the protocol by eliminating the need for an external processor. It is optimized as a wire-replacement technology inside industrial and commercial machines.

Data and Video Equalizers, Repeaters, Transmitters and Transceivers

Solutions for High-Speed Data and Video Transmission Over Copper Cables

Designers of a variety of applications that incorporate high-resolution camera systems or require high-speed data networking need solutions that can meet the advanced requirements of delivering digital content over common and low-cost coaxial (coax) cables at higher speeds and longer distances. Microchip's portfolio of data and video equalizers, repeaters, transmitters and transceivers provides you with flexible options for increasing data rates, using longer cables and transmitting video, power and control signals over standard coax cables in your designs.

Ethernet Products

Flexible Solutions for Ethernet Networks

Add robust and reliable high-speed communication to your embedded design. Ethernet can be used in many communications, consumer, industrial, automotive and other applications that require network connectivity, including remote monitoring of systems, implementing precision industrial motor control and communicating with Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Whatever your networking challenge is, Microchip's stand-alone devices as well as microcontrollers (MCUs) and microprocessors (MPUs) with Ethernet support make it easy to implement Ethernet in your applications. Microchip also offer timing solutions to clock Microchip's Ethernet products that you can use to achieve higher reliability and lower power consumption in your design and to meet AEC-Q100 requirements in automotive networking applications.

High-Speed Communication ICs

Microchip offer a large portfolio of high-speed communication ICs for different fiber optic applications with data rates ranging from sub-Mbps up to 12.5 Gbps. For point-to-point continuous-mode applications, we provide a wide choice of limiting amplifiers, laser drivers and VCSEL drivers to cover GbE/10GbE, Sonet/SDH and Fibre Channel applications. For point-to-multipoint Passive Optical Network (PON) applications, Microchip's burst-mode limiting amplifiers deliver industry-leading performance for GEPON/GPON, 10GEPON, XGPON and NG-PON2 applications. A family of SFF-8472 MSA fiber optic module management ICs completes Microchip's chipset offering. Microchip also provide a family of Clock and Data Recovery (CDR) ICs for operation up to 2.7 Gbps.

Network Processors

Microchip's WinPath® network processor family is purposely designed and optimized for access networks and Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) devices. WinPath network processors integrate programmable data plane and control plane processing components to maximize the value of software. They also support an extensive set of networking protocols for carrier-grade switch and router applications.

Optical Networking Solutions

The Optical Transport Network (OTN) defined in ITU-T G.709 is the default networking protocol that underpins today’s metro, regional and long-haul Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) packet-optical transport networks. Two generations of OTN have already been widely deployed: OTN 1.0, which was based on 10G WDM transport; and OTN 2.0, which enabled the transition to Coherent 100G Metro OTN switched networks and is the de facto standard in transport networks today. OTN has proven to be extremely flexible for accommodating new client signals and line rates. It offers the highest network reliability, providing 50 ms protection against any number of failures and deterministic service isolation capable of supporting the strictest Service Level Agreements (SLAs).

A transition to next-generation OTN is needed to scale the optical transport infrastructure to meet the unprecedented growth in bandwidth requirements. OTN 3.0 introduces flexible, “beyond 100G” (B100G) optical transport capabilities, coupled with support for new services like 25GbE, 50GbE, 200GbE, 400GbE and Flexible Ethernet. While there will be an enduring market need for OTN 2.0, packet optical transport networks will require OTN 3.0 to address another wave of growth in network traffic.

Microchip's OTN processors and OTN physical layers (PHYs) offer leading innovation, integration and power for Data Center Interconnect (DCI) networks. They deliver the quickest time to market and lowest R&D expense for the OEM and minimize the total cost of ownership for the service provider.

Microchip also offer a comprehensive portfolio of optical networking solutions for Synchronous Optical Networking/Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SONET/SDH), T1/E1 and Fiber-to-the-Home/Passive Optical Network (FTTH/PON) protocols.

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