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BLT Joins Microchip Partner Program as Design Partner
September 17, 2025 | BUSINESS WIREEstimated reading time: 1 minute
BLT, a U.S.-owned and operated engineering design services firm announced it has joined the Microchip Design Partner Program. This strategic partnership enhances BLT's ability to deliver cutting-edge, high-reliability design solutions across aerospace and defense, space, commercial and intelligence markets.
The Microchip Design Partner Program connects selected engineering firms with Microchip's full ecosystem of devices, development tools, and technical resources. BLT has decades of experience integrating Microchip parts into client solutions, and this partnership further expands their ability to leverage Microchip's microcontrollers, analog and mixed-signal devices, FPGAs, and SoCs. With direct access to Microchip's technology portfolio and ecosystem, this partnership enhances BLT's ability to deliver mission-critical designs, while helping clients accelerate development cycles and reduce time to deployment.
BLT's proven decades of expertise in custom electronics, FPGA and SoC design, embedded software, and systems engineering, combined now with Microchip's technology ecosystem, enables optimized, scalable solutions tailored to the unique challenges of aerospace, space, and defense applications.
"We're thrilled to become a Microchip Design Partner," said Ed McCauley, President and Founder of BLT. "BLT's commitment to solving challenging engineering problems for our Clients is strengthened by this partnership. Microchip's technology leadership, combined with our proven engineering capabilities, allows us to help our Clients bring complex projects to market faster, more affordably, and with the confidence that their systems will perform in the harshest environments."
Serving customers nationwide from its headquarters in Columbia, MD, and its state-of-the-art Innovation Center in Melbourne, FL, BLT focuses on quality, precision, and cutting-edge technology. Its expertise spans custom electronics design, systems engineering, and program management, enabling the development of tailored solutions to meet the evolving challenges of the space, aerospace, and defense sectors.
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