Accelerate time to market with Microchip's ChipLink development tools

Accelerate time to market with Microchip's ChipLink development tools

Microchip Technology Inc

Data Center Solutions Business Unit

Senior Product Marketing Engineer

Stephen Churchill

Delivering a quality end-market product involves not only the right choice of components, but also the right choice of suppliers who provide support and tools to accelerate that product to market. Configuring, monitoring and diagnosing the functionality of components, as well as testing interoperability and performance between them, from initial project initiation to ecosystem testing to final product release and volume production, is time-consuming and laborious. Choosing the right partner who can provide a broad range of fully validated and interoperability-tested components is key to success. But tools that enable your end-market product to meet unique product requirements are equally important. Microchip's ChipLink tool is a multi-platform Java-based graphical interface tool that brings together the Microchip components you use to support all stages of program development.

Managed through a single glass panel interface, the ChipLink tool suite supports many products in Microchip’s Data Center Solutions portfolio, including: Switchtec™ PCIe® switches, SmartROC and SmartIOC controllers, Adaptec® SmartRAID and SmartHBA adapters, SAS expanders, Flashtec® NVMe™ controllers and Smart Memory Controllers product lines.

ChipLink complements the functionality of our market-leading products with an intuitive, cross-platform GUI-based interface, enabling you to explore device functionality and test configuration settings in early development, verify test and hardware features in pre-production, and perform forensic debugging functions in post-production. Instant visual feedback is provided at every step. ChipLink is designed to interactively manage multiple Microchip devices simultaneously in your system.