Microchip Is... SiC

Interview with Perry Schugart of Microchip’s SiC Business Unit.

Silicon Carbide has many advantages over conventional silicon, including high efficiency, faster switching speeds and wider temperature ranges, benefits that are increasingly making it the dominant semiconductor technology for many power devices. In our latest podcast, Perry Schugart, Head of Marketing for Microchip’s SiC Business Unit, tells how the company became a major SiC vendor with a range of industry leading SiC MOSFETs, diodes, modules and digital gate drivers.  Listen to this podcast to hear how Microchip makes it easier for developers to adopt the technology and how we have improved SiC ruggedness and reliability to become a leader in this exciting new market.

Find out more about Microchip’s SiC products here https://www.microchip.com/en-us/products/power-management/silicon-carbide-sic-devices-and-power-modules

 

Time Stamps

[1:16] How SiC is different from conventional silicon

[03:04] SiC’s benefits over silicon

[05:13] Microchip becomes a SiC vendor and develops own production fabs

[08:26] The challenges of designing with SiC and how Microchip can make it easier

[10:39] Using packaging to make SiC solutions more efficient

[12:01] SiC modules are the future and Microchip are industry leaders

[14:28] Improving the ruggedness and reliability of SiC technology

[18:33] Advice for SiC product developers

[19:41] Takeaway – Microchip is a SiC provider

 

Follow Perry

Perry Schugart on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/perryschugart/

 

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