At any given moment, seven scientists, engineers, and pilots are floating 250 miles above our heads. They are the crew of the International Space Station, and they are orbiting the planet at 17,500 mph.

Meet Daire McNamara. Daire lives above a boarding school just outside Limerick, Ireland. He enjoys running, collects art, and is doing his best to learn French.

Touchscreen displays are an integral part of every modern-day payment system and point of sale (POS) terminal. Touchscreens greatly enhance the aesthetic appeal of payment terminals, while offering a modern control modality familiar to users of cellphones, tablets, and touchscreen laptops. Despite these benefits, touchscreens add additional security vulnerabilities from determined card thieves that must be addressed.

Welcome to the podcast portion of our Engineering Heroes series, where we recognize design engineers and developers who do amazing work that impacts countless lives around the world.

Chandler, Arizona. Microchip Technology released the compact 5071B cesium atomic clock delivering autonomous time keeping of 100 ns holdover for months in case of GNSS rejections.  The solution is delivered in a three-unit height (3U) 19-inch rackmount enclosure for easy mobility.

On this episode of Embedded Insiders, Steve Sanghi, founder and former chief executive officer of Microchip Technology, joins the Insiders to speak about the release of his book, which highlights the executives’ personal journey from growing up in small town in northern India, to his success in becoming a renowned semiconductor industry leader.

Overview: On-chip logic and flexibility peripherals improve applications by reducing code size, lowering power consumption, and improving system performance by implementing discrete logic and/or connecting other peripherals together.