Microsemi announced the availability of two versions of its transient voltage suppressor (TVS) devices in its patented plastic large area device (PLAD) package. The 18-kilowatt (kW) MPLAD18KP and 36-kW MPLAD36KP TVS families meet today’s demanding lightning protection requirements in aircraft, including the multi-strike lightning standard (RTCA DO-160E), which have grown in importance as a result of the introduction and growing use of compo...

Microsemi announced six new monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) products, including four wideband low noise MMIC amplifiers (MMA040AA , MMA041AA, MMA043AA and MMA044AA) and two wideband gallium arsenide (GaAs) MMIC switches (MMS006AA and MMS008AA). The new MMIC products are ideally suited for test and measurement, electronic warfare and radar applications.

Microsemi announced it is the recipient of Huawei Technologies Co. LTD’s “Best Quality Partner Award.” Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider and long-time customer of Microsemi, recognised the company for its commitment to quality, exceptional customer support and continued efforts in delivering excellence to its customers at Huawei’s 2016 Core Partner Convention in She...

Microsemi announced significant enhancements to its Integrated Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Master (IGM) software, expanding capabilities and key features in its new version 2 (v2). The company’s IGM product portfolio enables coverage and capacity at the very edge of mobile networks to serve mobile operators preparing for 5G through densification as well as enterprises seeking enhanced indoor capacity and coverage on LTE and LT...

The availability of a series of plastic packaged PIN diode control products has been announced by Microsemi Corporation, leveraging the company’s 50-year history supplying PIN diode products for challenging Radio Frequency (RF) power, small signal switching and receiver power limiting functions. 

Microsemi announced it is sampling the LX7720 radiation-tolerant motor controller, the newest member of its Space System Manager (SSM) product family. As the industry’s first highly integrated radiation-tolerant motor control IC, the LX7720 significantly reduces weight and board space relative to conventional discrete motor control circuits, offering a unique solution for satellite manufacturers sensitive to area and weight challenges.

A range of compact single-port SimpliPHY Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) and Fast Ethernet (FE) PHYs with supporting open-source Linux drivers has been announced by Microsemi Corporation. The PHYs, including VSC8541 and VSC8531 GbE PHYs, and VSC8540 and VSC8530 FE PHYs, provide a flexible input/output interface in a package as small as 6x6mm, enabling ubiquitous Ethernet connectivity.

  Microsemi announced its RTG4 high-speed signal processing radiation-tolerant FPGAs have achieved MIL-STD-883 Class B qualification, meeting the industry’s standard for qualifying microelectronic devices suitable for use within aerospace and defense electronic systems.

  Microsemi announced two new adapters in its award-winning Microsemi Adaptec Series 8 product family. The 8405E and 8805E offer server storage customers entry-level systems with redundant array of independent disks (RAID) devices that deliver accelerated performance with built-in cache and uncompromised reliability.

The availability of Microsemi Corporation's TimeSource Enhanced Primary Reference Time Clock (TimeSource Enhanced PRTC) was announced today, a system enabling telecommunications and mobile operators to meet the G.8272.1 recommendation from the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).

Microsemi announced the availability of its TimeSource Enhanced Primary Reference Time Clock (TimeSource Enhanced PRTC), a system enabling telecommunications and mobile operators to meet the G.8272.1 recommendation from the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), while also protecting against serious threats associated with global navigation satellite system (GNSS) vulnerabilities.

Microsemi announced its aerospace power core module (PCM) with an integrated field programmable gate array (FPGA) and hybrid power drive (HPD) stage. The PCM controls the electrical motors used in applications such as primary flight control actuation, landing gear systems and other systems. The device interfaces seamlessly with both aircraft power supplies and flight controllers, providing vital sensor feedback for health monitoring.

  Microsemi announced the availability of its ZL40250-ZL40253 miSmartBuffer devices. The highly flexible feature rich products reduce the complexity of designing clock trees for communications, enterprise switches and data center equipment by offering an innovative approach to traditional buffers.

The latest miClockSynth family of high performance frequency synthesisers and rate converters has been announced by Microsemi Corporation. The ZL30260-ZL30267 devices, targeted at the enterprise, data centre, communications and video markets, simplify board design by generating up to four independent frequency families of low jitter clock signals from a crystal source or clock input.

RTG4 FPGAs integrate Microsemi’s 4th gen flash-based FPGA fabric and high-performance interfaces such as serialisation/deserialisation (SERDES) on a single chip while maintaining the resistance to radiation-induced configuration upsets in the harshest radiation environments, such as space flight (LEO, MEO, GEO, HEO, deep space); high altitude aviation, medical electronics, and nuclear power plant control.

The successful Juno spacecraft mission has so far included its orbit insertion at Jupiter, and the mission will soon be turning towards the data collection phase. After an almost five year journey to the solar system’s largest planet, the spacecraft successfully entered Jupiter’s orbit.

New enhancements have been made to Microsemi’s imaging/video solution supporting the Mobile Industry Processor Interface (MIPI) camera serial interface (CSI-2). Customers can use the company’s low power, highly secure IGLOO 2 field programmable gate array (FPGA) and SmartFusion 2 system-on-chip (SoC) FPGA capabilities in CSI-2-based camera systems.

A provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and performance, Microsemi, has announced the availability of its PDS-EM-8100 Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) 2.5Gb/s Multiplexer. As the first device of its kind, the unique offering enables installations of new 802.11ac access points with 2.5Gb/s rates without the need to replace the Ethernet switch with a 2.5G NBASE-T interface.

A provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and performance, Microsemi, has announced the availability of its LiteFast solution, a proprietary lightweight, high-speed, low latency, point-to-point serial communication protocol. Embedded systems across a wide variety of applications use high-speed serial interface and protocols to transfer data at speeds higher than 1Gbps.

  Microsemi Corporation has announced the company was chosen to supply its master reference oscillator for the US Air Force’s Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) satellite programme for which Lockheed Martin is the prime contractor.