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Foreword Microchip Technology offers Silicon Carbide (SiC) products that provide its customers with the ability to quickly innovate systems and move their end products into a competitive advantage position faster. Microchip's new family of 3.3 kV SiC power products allows customers to move to high-voltage SiC with ease, speed, and confidence and benefit from the many advantages this exciting technology offers over silicon-based designs. Microchip has released hundreds of SiC power devices and solutions to production over the last three years, ensuring designers can find the right voltage, current, and package fit for their application requirements. All Microchip SiC MOSFETs and Schottky Barrier Diodes (SBDs) are designed with customer confidence in mind, featuring industry-leading ruggedness and reliability. Microchip's devices are backed by its customer-driven obsolescence practice, which ensures devices will continue to be produced for as long as customers need them and Microchip can produce them. Customers can combine Microchip SiC products with the company's other devices including 8-, 16- and 32-bit microcontrollers (MCUs), power management devices, analog sensors, touch and gesture controllers, and wireless connectivity solutions to create complete system solutions at a lower overall system cost. Microchip also offers outstanding technical support, providing customers with a one- stop-shop for assistance with their technical challenges in developing power conversion and motor control applications. Microchip Technology Inc. has been shipping Silicon Carbide (SiC) power devices since 2003. Our SiC power solutions provide the lowest system cost, fastest time to market and lowest risk. Microchip SiC devices offer unrivaled ruggedness and performance – our customers adopt SiC with ease, speed and confidence. For more information, visit the Microchip SiC website at www.microchip.com/sic. Mouser Electronics, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is an authorized semiconductor and electronic component distributor focused on New Product Introductions from its leading manufacturer partners. Serving the global electronic design engineer and buyer community, the global distributor's website, mouser.com, is available in multiple languages and currencies and features more than 6.8 million products from over 1,200 manufacturer brands. Mouser offers 27 support locations worldwide to provide best-in-class customer service in local language, currency and time zone. The distributor ships to over 650,000 customers in 223 countries/territories from its 1 million- square-foot, state-of-the-art distribution facilities in the Dallas, Texas, metro area. For more information, visit https://www.mouser.com. By Leon Gross, Corporate Vice President, Discrete Products Group, Microchip Technology 5 Silicon Carbide Power Solutions