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Precise Time and Frequency for Vehicle Platforms
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Comprehensive timing solutions designed to address your most complex timing issues

Seeking a solution for precise and accurate time delivery? Microchip’s cutting-edge technologies for energy efficiency and time accuracy can assist you in creating more reliable and secure networks and systems to meet the most demanding applications.

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Data Integrity in Long-Duration Experiments

Scientific research in fields like physics, astronomy and metrology relies on ultra-precise timing references to conduct accurate experiments and observations. Whether the application is synchronizing particle detectors, timing celestial events, or maintaining time standards, precise timing is fundamental to advancing scientific knowledge.

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Time Reference for Point-to-Point Speed Tracking

Welcome to the world of speed cameras with built-in plate recognition. While there are some predictions that we’ll all be driven everywhere in speed-regulated autonomous vehicles within the next few years or decades, for now, government agencies around the world are using these cameras ticket speeding drivers.

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Synchronization in Professional Golf Video Production

Professional golf has seen its share of change over the years, mostly related to how it's watched rather than how it's played. Video technology has been improving rapidly, offering better ball-tracking techniques that make it easier than ever to watch the game on a screen.

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Time synchronization in Point of Presence (POP)

Communication network operators need physical PoPs to facilitate interconnection between different carriers and service providers.

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Precision Timing for SATCOM System

SATCOM systems are critical to military operations, as they enable resilient global connectivity for voice, data, timing, ISR transmission and battlefield coordination. SATCOM systems can be deployed in a variety of environments and platforms including ground, airborne, maritime and space.

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LN-CSAC SA65-LN FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

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SyncServer S600

Time ServerHigh-Performance, Enhanced Security Network

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GNSS Disciplined Oscillator Product Line Brochure

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GNSS Disciplined Oscillators: High Performance Embedded PNT Systems

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Protect Your Critical Timing Applications

Communications network operators who are struggling to support legacy SSU and BITS systems can now migrate to a newer platform that supports E1/T1/CC critical timing services as well as next generation network-based timing services using PTP, NTP and Synchronous Ethernet.

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TimeProvider 4100 Series Release 2.4

Precise Timing Grandmaster With Gateway Clock, High-Accuracy and Redundancy

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Alternative PNT and Hollywood Spy Thrillers Come to Life - Part 2 of 2

This is part 2 of a two-part episode.

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GridTime™ 3000 GNSS Time Server

Substation-Hardened GNSS Time Server

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The motto of Zero Trust is Never Trust, Always Verify.

An organization that is rolling out a Zero Trust Architecture should understand how irrational it is to get time from public NTP server pools and how it violates the fundamental concepts of Zero Trust.

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The motto of Zero Trust is Never Trust, Always Verify.

An organization that is rolling out a Zero Trust Architecture should understand how irrational it is to get time from public NTP server pools and how it violates the fundamental concepts of Zero Trust.

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Featured Applications

Tactical Radios

Tactical radio systems provide secure and reliable voice and data links in challenging environments including urban canyons, indoors and electromagnetic jamming.

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Precision Timing in Low Earth Orbit (LEO)

As ride sharing and larger payload capacities decrease satellite launch costs, Low Earth Orbit has become the preferred domain for new satellite constellations and scientific missions in space.

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Fully Integrated Time Scale System

A time scale system delivers a UTC-traceable source of time, operating autonomously with exceptional precision and reliability.

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GNSSDO Use Case: Military Radar Systems

Modern radar systems are essential for a variety of military applications, including missile guidance and warning, surveillance, targeting, electronic warfare and navigation systems.

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Precise and Secure Time in Education

Enhancing Cybersecurity in Education with SyncServer® Network Time Servers: A Key Component in Zero Trust Architecture

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Precise and Secure Timing for Power Utility Substations

The GridTime™ 3000 GNSS time server is a software-enabled solution that provides enhanced levels of redundant, secure and resilient timing for power utility substations.

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5071B Cesium Primary Standard and Frequency Standard Critical Infrastructure

Microchip’s next-generation Cesium Atomic Clock delivers precise timing for months during GNSS outages

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Learn About 5G Timing Architectures

5G communications networks rely on high-precision source clocks that lock to the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS). If the GNSS timing reference is lost or impaired, calls will drop, and data services will dramatically slow down or stop altogether.

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Learn About Data Centers

Regulatory and user requirements for data centers demand sub-microsecond sequential time stamps. Time stamping precision and accuracy is critical not only across servers in a data center, but also between data centers in a network.

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Learn About Timing for Transportation Infrastructures

Transportation infrastructures—such as aviation, railway or maritime—rely on the use of Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) services delivered by Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) for operational efficiency, reliability and, most importantly, public safety.

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Reference Media

Minimize GNSS Dependency for Accurate Timing with Terrestrial Alternative

Precise Timing and Reliable GNSS Technology

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Three Ways to Construct a Time Scale With the SyncSystem 4380A

GNSSDO Modules for Drones, Radar, SATCOM, and LEO Satellites

Mission-Critical Timing: Enhancing Defense Readiness Through Advanced Synchronization - Microchip's Webinar

Modern defense systems demand absolute precision. Yet, critical timing sources like GPS are vulnerable to jamming and spoofing, which puts mission success and security at risk. Join Microchip’s live webinar to discover how advanced synchronization technologies are shaping the future of defense systems.

Alternative PNT and Hollywood Spy Thrillers Come to Life Part 2 of 2 Listen here

Product Line Introduction: GNSS Disciplined Oscillator Modules

Our GNSS Disciplined Oscillator (GNSSDO) modules combine high-performance oscillators and our proprietary holdover, aging and environmental correction algorithms into a small-form-factor PNT system.

Microchip Is... Atomic Clocks

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

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Alternative PNT and Hollywood Spy Thrillers Come to Life - Part 2 of 2

This is part 2 of a two-part episode.

Alternative PNT and Hollywood Spy Thrillers Come to Life Part 2 of 2 Listen here

Alternative PNT and Hollywood Spy Thrillers Come to Life - Part 1 of 2

This is part 1 of a two-part episode.

Alternative PNT and Hollywood Spy Thrillers Come to Life Part 2 of 2 Listen here

Atomic Clocks for Satellite Navigation

This Epsiode will be a real technical deep dive. We will learn why we use atomic clocks instead of normal ones and what role the speed of light plays in the process.

LN-CSAC: Crystal Purity and Atomic Accuracy

With its low power consumption and wide temperature range, the Low-Noise Chip Scale Atomic Clock (LN-CSAC) is an excellent choice for battery- powered applications that are exposed to extreme temperatures.

BlueSky® Technology

Protect, Resist, Withstand, and Recover from GNSS Adversities

SSU 2000/2000e High Capacity Synchronization Supply Unit/BITS for Carrier Grade Network

This video offers a brief review of the functionality and features of the SSU 2000/2000e platform, which is used by communications network operators worldwide to generate and distribute superior SONET/SDH TDM synchronization.

GridTime™ 3000 GNSS Time Server V 1.1

Enhance the security and reliability of your substation's timing network by upgrading to the latest version of the GridTime™ 3000 GNSS Time Server.

The Miniature Atomic Clock (MAC-SA5X)

The Miniature Atomic Clock (MAC) was launched in 2020, setting the standard as the top-performing rubidium oscillator in terms of size and power efficiency. Since then, thousands of MAC units have been deployed across Communications, Test & Measurement and Aerospace & Defense sectors.

Introducing Timeprovider® XT Extension Shelf - Timing

Do you need to make accurate frequency measurements, but don’t have a reference you can reliably trust? Using standalone quartz oscillators for measurements introduces aging effects that can compromise the frequency accuracy of your measurements.

Built-in Accuracy: Utilizing Internal References in the Phase Noise Analyzer

Do you need to make accurate frequency measurements, but don’t have a reference you can reliably trust? Using standalone quartz oscillators for measurements introduces aging effects that can compromise the frequency accuracy of your measurements.

Validate your GNSS signal with the Timeprovider 4100 V2.4 Grandmaster with Bluesky™ Technology

TimeProvider® 4100 Series version 2.4 now features high capacity with 2,000 PTP clients and embedded BlueSky™ GNSS Firewall technology for anti-jamming and anti-spoofing protection.

Media Updates

HORDE PNT for contested environments

Microchip's HORDE PNT architecture enables decentralized position, navigation and timing for resilient operation in GPS-denied and contested environments.

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Terrestrial Alternative to GNSS for resilient critical infrastructure

Microchip’s TimeProvider® 4500 v3 grandmaster clock enables terrestrial alternative to GNSS for resilient critical infrastructure services.

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Timing Resilience from the Ground Up

The pursuit of resilient timing systems is more critical than ever as the RF spectrum becomes more contested by the day, threatening the performance of devices in the cloud.

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Skyware Technology

Network clocks are the backbone of critical infrastructure operations, with the precise alignment of clocks becoming increasingly important for data centers, power utilities, wireless and wireline networks and financial institutions.

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