Microchip puts its courses on-line Microchip is offering on-line courses for engineers. Built around company products and under the umbrella of ‘Microchip University’, the courses and webcasts cover a range “diverse embedded design topics ranging from C programming to cryptography”, said the company. “Courses offer best practices for implementing a wide variety of systems such as the IoT, communication protocols like Bluetooth, USB and CAN, plus bootloaders and high-speed data analysis using FPGAs.” For example, there are so far three courses in the embedded linux section: Introduction – Exploring embedded Linux on the ATSAMA5D27-SOM1-EK (96 minutes) Building your Linux development system (70 minutes)