Peregrine Semiconductor’s Silicon-on-Sapphire CMOS process (UTSi”) has proven itself as a leading technology for high reliability, radiation tolerant space and defense applications.
Communications solutions for the harsh environments of space and defense applications need dedicated development and support to successfully meet the demanding needs of equipment suppliers to this market.
In order to fulfill customers’ needs for space & defense applications, Peregrine Semiconductor has opened a new design center in Melbourne, Fla. that specializes in high reliability & radiation effects product development.
In addition to being an innovative developer and supplier of high-performance communications integrated circuits (ICs) to the commercial wireless and optical networking markets, Peregrine also targets the satellite, terrestrial and aerospace industries with products and technologies ideally suited to their needs.
Products developed at Peregrine’s Melbourne Design Center will address customers’ concerns about radiation effects and will apply Peregrine’s commercial wireless and photonics intellectual property and deep sub-micron UTSi technology to meet the single event upset (SEU), latch-up, and total dose radiation requirements for this market.
Peregrine’s Radiation-Hardened CMOS products will be designed at the Melbourne design center and will be manufactured in Peregrine’s 6″ 0.25u wafer fabrication facility in Sydney, Australia.
“Key employee additions at the Melbourne design center will allow Peregrine to support space customer’s standard product and also Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) needs as they arise,” said Charles Tabbert, director of space and defense product marketing.
“Our Melbourne design center team is a critical element in our plan to be a leader in applying the RF and fiber-optic capabilities resident in a high volume commercial IC business such as Peregrine’s, into a unique portfolio of space-qualified products and foundry services.”
