Microchip Is... Atomic Clocks

Interview With David Chandler, Senior Manager in Product Marketing of Atomic System Clocks at Microchip Technology Inc.

Achieving highly accurate precision timing is no easy feat from a technology perspective, yet it is fundamentally important in many applications. Getting this right can reduce design risk and speed up time to market.

In this podcast episode, we speak to David Chandler, senior manager in product marketing of atomic system clocks at Microchip, to learn more about atomic clocks, including the different types, how they work, use cases and how they fit with the wider Microchip portfolio.

Microchip provides a broad portfolio of laboratory-grade system atomic clocks and small PCB-mountable atomic oscillators, including the world’s lowest-power commercial atomic clock, for applications requiring the highest degree of free-running frequency and timing accuracy based on atomic resonance techniques.

Find out more about Atomic Clocks at Microchip here: https://www.microchip.com/en-us/products/clock-and-timing/components/atomic-clocks

 

Time Stamps

[01:21] – How Atomic Clocks compare to other timing solutions

[02:40] – Introduction to Atomic Clocks

[05:26] – Different types of Atomic Clocks at Microchip

[08:22] – System level products

[09:09] – Where are Atomic Clocks used?

[11:23] – Trends in the market

[13:40] – Why choose Microchip

[15:00] – The chip scale Atomic Clock

[16:08] – Unusual applications of Atomic Clocks

[18:16] – Common misunderstandings of Atomic Clocks

[19:41] – How does Atomic Clocks fit at Microchip

[22:06] – Engineering advice for using Atomic Clocks

 

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David Chandler on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-chandler-0728999/

 

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