A provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and performance, Microsemi, has announced the availability of its Switchtec PFX PCIe switch, providing the industry’s highest density, lowest power PCIe switch for data centre, communications, defence and industrial applications.

It has been announced that Ted Speers, Head of Product Architecture and Planning for its SoC business unit, has been appointed to the inaugural board of directors of the RISC-V Foundation by Microsemi Corporation. The nonprofit formally introduced Speers and six other board members at the fourth annual RISC-V Workshop, held at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts 12th-13th July, 2016.

Microsemi has announced an imaging/video solution for the development of low power and reliable video processing applications. The new platform is comprised of an FPGA Mezzanine Card (FMC), a comprehensive IP suite and GUI. The FMC plugged into the SmartFusion2 Advanced Development Kit demonstrates Microsemi’s IGLOO2 FPGA and SmartFusion2 SoC FPGA capabilities to support configurable and scalable camera, imaging and video designs.

Microsemi Corporation has announced it is sponsoring a series of tutorials at the RISC-V Workshop on embedding RISC-V on the Arrow Electronics-built SF2+ Development Kit, featuring Microsemi’s SmartFusion2 SoC FPGA, Microsemi’s Timberwolf audio processor and Microsemi’s LX series power devices. 

It has been announced by Microsemi that it has made enhancements to its SmartFusion2 SoC FPGA-based deterministic multi-axis motor control solution, expanding its features to support applications using encoder, Hall sensor, CAN bus and induction motors.

Microsemi has announced the RTG4 development kit with its recently announced RTG4 PROTO FPGAs. Hailed as the industry’s first radiation-tolerant FPGA kit providing space designers a comprehensive evaluation and design platform, it is suited for the development of applications such as data transmission, serial connectivity, bus interface and high speed designs, using the company’s RTG4 radiation-tolerant high-speed FPGAs.

Microsemi has announced the availability of a phase-compliant embedded solution enabling IEEE 1588 across a wide variety of applications. The API 4.7 release of the company’s software suite adds support for the ITU-T G.8275.2 Precision Time Protocol (PTP) profile for timing and phase with partial timing support. This is complemented by enhancements to Microsemi’s TimeProvider series TP2700 and T...

  A provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and performance, Microsemi Corporation announced its collaboration with Veracity Security Intelligence, to develop secure networking solutions for industrial Ethernet deployments. 

Microsemi has announced its Ocelot product family, a low power, feature-rich Ethernet switch family optimized for communications networking in the IIoT market. Designed for the specific needs of industrial Ethernet switch applications, such as factory automation, process control, smart grid/smart energy and physical security, the devices simplify IIoT network migration to an Ethernet backbone with flexible interfaces, TCAM based classifications, ...

Microsemi has announced the latest member of its SparX-IV Ethernet switch product family, VSC7440 SparX-IV-34, designed to enable more cost effective, smaller form factor and lower power networking solutions with 2.5G and 10GbE connectivity.

Microsemi has announced that it will feature 15 products from its RF, millimetre wave ICs, MMICs, ultra-low power sub-GHz transceivers and high performance WLAN monolithic RFICs portfolio at IMS 2016, currently on at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California. Spanning the DC to 140GHz frequency range, these devices build upon Microsemi’s rich history in RF, microwave and MMW solutions for the defence, communications, instrumentation, ...

Designed to enable prototyping of space systems, Microsemi has announced the availability of its RTG4 PROTO FPGAs. The RTG4 PROTO FPGAs enable lower cost prototyping and design validation activities for the latest radiation-tolerant high-speed FPGAs and are also claimed to be the only reprogrammable prototyping solution of their kind providing the same timing and power characteristics as space flight units.

A collaboration between Seiko Epson Corporation and Microsemi has seen the joint development of compliant network synchronisation solutions, with Epson’s TG7050EAN high frequency high stability temperature compensated crystal oscillator (TCXO) supporting Microsemi’s ZL30722 IEEE-1588 and Synchronous Ethernet (SyncE) packet Eclock network synchroniser.

Microsemi Corporation is participating in the PCIM Europe conference and exhibition May 10-12th, 2016 at the Nuremberg Messe in Nuremberg, Germany. Microsemi is showcasing its expertise in power management solutions for a variety of vertical market applications in aerospace, automotive, industrial, defense and medical markets.

Showcasing the growing list of solutions that support 2.5 and 5GE over twisted pair copper cabling (2.5GBASE-T and 5GBASE-T), the NBASE-T Alliance announced that its members will demonstrate NBASE-T products in multiple deployment scenarios at Interop 2016 (May 4-6th in Las Vegas). Together in Booth 936, the demonstrations will show products—many of which are already deployed and shipping—from alliance members Aquantia, Aukua Systems,...

Microsemi Corporation has announced a recent member of its high-reliability space product portfolio, the LX7710 radiation-tolerant diode array. The LX7710 is the industry’s first integrated solution of its kind offering eight diode pair channels designed specifically for satellites and other space applications. The company also announced its AAHS298B radiation-tolerant source driver has achieved Qualified Manufacturers List (QML) Class V an...

Microsemi and Solectrix announced the availability of Solectrix’s SXoM-SF2, a high performance, low power, secure and ultra-compact DSP SOM solution based on Microsemi’s SmartFusion2 SoC FPGA devices. SXoM-SF2 SOM, with a SmartFusion2 SoC FPGA and DDR3 memory, enables numerous higher performance applications to be built quickly— significantly reducing customers’ time to market.

Microsemi and D-Link announced their collaboration to develop D-Link’s mydlink Smart Alarm Detector (DCH-S165). The Wi-Fi based detector monitors and identifies the sounds of standard UL-certified smoke or carbon monoxide alarms using Microsemi’s ZL38062 sound classifier audio processor as the primary integrated circuit of the device.

Microsemi Corporation extends its congratulations to Lockheed Martin on the U.S. Navy’s 158th, 159th and 160th successful test launches in March of the Trident II D5 Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM). Microsemi has supported Lockheed Martin, the Navy’s strategic missile prime contractor, with a number of strategic designs and product offerings catered to this national defense program.

Microsemi Corporation has announced its DIGI-G4, the company’s latest DIGI Optical Transport Network (OTN) processor enabling the transition to 400G OTN switching solutions, has been certified to the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 197.