Microchip Technology announced the expansion of its Detroit Automotive Technology Center in Novi, Michigan. The 24,000-square-foot facility is the destination for automotive clients to explore new technologies and to meet with technical experts to get support for their end applications and designs. Microchip has been part of the Detroit community since 1999, when it first opened its doors as an application and sales office.
With the recent completion of phase three of its expansion project, Microchip has more than doubled its lab space, including the addition of new labs that focus on high-voltage and E-Mobility applications. This larger facility will also bring more technology-related jobs to the region. Located in the heart of the automotive industry, and with top tier OEMs, suppliers and startups operating in the region, Novi is a key location for Microchip's Detroit Automotive Technology Center and easily accessible to help OEMs with their design challenges.
Knob-on-Display(TM) (KoD(TM)) solutions; and buttons, sliders, and wheels with EMC testing; USB and networking development resources for pre-certification of multimedia infotainment systems and media hubs for advanced USB Type-C(R) 3.2 protocol applications; Die- and product-level characterization of automotive MEMS resonators andoscillators, including vacuum and wafer-scale probe and test, long-termaging, frequency stability, phase noise and jitter test capability; Development of automotive security solutions using Microchip's CryptoAutomotive(TM) TrustAnchor ICs, and onsite security training to learn how to implement secure elements in applications such as secure boot, message and hardware authentication and more. Microchip also offers a broad portfolio of ISO 26262 functional safety ready and functional safety compliant devices that offer the latest hardware safety features and are supported by a comprehensive safety ecosystem to simplify the design and certification of safety-critical automotive applications.
