Providing turnkey solutions for industrial automation networks
Provides IEEE standard compatibility, clock accuracy ↑

As factory automation continues to improve efficiency across a range of areas, from storage savings to improved throughput, Microchip has unveiled a family of products featuring next-generation networking technology for interconnecting devices, sensors and equipment communications.

Microchip Technology today announced the launch of its LAN9668 TSN switching device family.

This is a family of high-precision time networking (TSN) Ethernet switches that provides the industry's first turnkey solution for industrial automation networks.

The product family offers IEEE standards-compliant features in the industry's first switching solution, reducing data traffic latency and improving clock accuracy.

The LAN9668x is complemented by Microchip's recently released LAN8814 four-port Gigabit Ethernet Physical Layer (PHY) transceiver.

Microchip's LAN9668-I/9MX and LAN9668-9MX devices are eight-port switches for industrial and commercial applications, each featuring an Arm® Cortex®-A7 CPU, and support the TSN IEEE standard for communications in industrial environments.

Microchip's Ethernet Switch API (MESA) and Ethernet PHY API (MEPA) are operating systemIt provides the freedom and flexibility to develop comprehensive, user-friendly, and independent functional libraries.

The LAN9668 and LAN8814 scalable single TSN chipsets support Microchip's software framework and provide the industry's lowest latency and end-to-end communication traffic transmission.

The LAN8814 is a next-generation 4-port Gigabit Ethernet PHY that fully supports the latest TSN requirements, including IEEE 1588 v2 and frame preemption.

Developers using LAN9668 and LAN8814 technologies can save development time and costs by using TSN chipsets to achieve timing, stream scheduling, and protection and management goals.

“TSN improves interoperability by streamlining traffic through the connection of data streams,” said Charles Forni, vice president of Microchip’s USB and Networking business unit. “Developers will be able to capture new markets with TSN technology.”