Microsemi has announced the availability of its RTG4 FPGA Development Kit, the first of its kind to provide space designers with an evaluation and development platform for applications such as data transmission, serial connectivity, bus interface and high-speed designs using Microsemi’s RTG4 high-speed signal processing radiation-tolerant FPGA device.

Microsemi and Nine Ways Research & Development have jointly announced the availability of Nine Way’s NetFusion, an industrial Ethernet switch development board based on Microsemi’s SmartFusion 2 SoC FPGA device. NetFusion is a hardware solution specifically designed for industrial networking, motor control, site perimeter telemetry and telematics for industrial segment customers.

Microsemi has announced the availability of the smallest radio module it has ever produced, measuring just 5.5x4.5x1.5mm. The ZL70323 is optimised for implantable medical devices such as pacemakers, cardiac defibrillators and neurostimulators. The radio module supersedes the company’s ZL70321 and complements its ZL70120 radio module used for external device controllers.

Microsemi has announced the availability of the first device in its latest family of sensor interface ICs based upon inductive sensing technology. The LX3301A, the first inductive sensor IC in the market utilising Linear Variable Differential Transformer (LVDT) architecture implementations on PCBs, is designed for applications within the automotive and industrial markets.

Microsemi and Mikroprojekt have announced Mikroprojekt’s compact, high performance HMI platform, based on Microsemi’s SmartFusion2 SoC FPGA devices and comprising an easy-to-use way to develop touchscreen HMI solutions. Such solutions can be deployed across a wide range of industrial and building automation, digital signage, vending machine, medical, automotive and appliance applications.

Microsemi has announced its highest security and capacity SATA SSD for defence, intelligence, UAV and other defence-related Network Area Storage (NAS) applications. As increased use of high resolution sensors is changing the way data is stored, higher density SSDs are needed. Microsemi is addressing this market need by leveraging the company’s miniaturisation technology in a compact 2.5”, 9.5mm form factor.

Microsemi has completed Differential Power Analysis (DPA) testing on its secure boot FPGA solution, which resolves side channel vulnerabilities inherent in the configuration process of large SRAM FPGAs. The DPA testing was completed using the Test Vector Leakage Assessment (TVLA) methodology developed by Cryptography Research Incorporated (CRI), a division of Rambus.

Low power, flash-based FPGAs and ARM Cortex-M3 enabled SoC FPGAs, which have achieved AEC-Q100 grade 2 qualification, have been released by Microsemi. According to the company, the automotive-grade qualified SmartFusion2 and IGLOO2 devices are the only devices in the industry to offer advanced security and high reliability features critical for automotive applications.

Designed specifically for Ambarella camera SoCs, the Timberwolf audio processor from Microsemi has been engineered to be the best-in-class HD audio solution for Ambarella’s suite of video processors. The audio processor is designed with AcuEdge acoustic technology on Microsemi’s innovative Timberwolf DSP platform, which features a set of complex, fully integrated algorithms that allow users to extract intelligible information from the...

Exhibiting and participating in the Small Cells World Summit in London, Microsemi will be at booth 61 from 9th to 11th June 2015. The company’s experts will showcase a variety of its solutions for precise timing, synchronisation and PoE.

Microsemi and Sibridge Technologies have announced the release of a suite of high-speed IP cores targeting Microsemi’s SmartFusion2 SoC FPGAs and IGLOO2 FPGAs. This extends Microsemi’s prior engagement with Sibridge Technologies by adding Sibridge as an approved CompanionCore provider. The CompanionCore programme offers a wide selection of synthesisable IP cores that are licensed, supported and maintained directly by Microsemi pa...

Microsemi has announced its Radiation-Tolerant (RT) ProASIC3 FPGAs have been qualified by the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency as QML (Qualified Manufacturers List) Class Q. The devices are also the first flash-based FPGAs to receive a QML qualification.

Microsemi will add a member to its SparX-IV enterprise Ethernet switch product family, the VSC7449, offering significantly higher switching capacity and competitive port configurations. The SparX-IV enterprise Ethernet switch is suitable for managed Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and enterprise switch platforms, including WiFi access and aggregation, as well as industrial IoT applications.

Microsemi will be hosting a one-day Space Forum in five U.S. and international locations during June and August 2015. Microsemi’s technical experts, along with the company’s partners, will present today’s leading space-related products, capabilities, technology roadmaps and solutions, including the recently introduced RTG4 radiation-tolerant FPGAs and the LX7730 telemetry controller.

Microsemi has doubled the Precision Time Protocol (PTP) client capacity of its TimeProvider 2700 PTP GrandMaster (GM) clock, providing synchronisation to LTE Networks. The TimeProvider 2700 now provides simultaneous hardware time stamping support of up to 128 PTP clients, resulting in a significant cost benefit using a single GM clock.

Microsemi  has announced that it has achieved Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) CE 2.0 certification for its Serval VSC7418 CE switch engine and CE service application software. A virtual requirement from service providers, the CE 2.0 certification enables Microsemi OEM and ODM customers to accelerate time-to-market with readily interoperable, standards-based equipment for Ethernet business service delivery.

Microsemi will showcase 13 products from its RF, microwave and mm-wave ICs, modules, MMICs and subsystem portfolio at the 2015 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS2015) and Exhibition, to be held at the Phoenix Convention Centre, Arizona, 17th to 22nd May 2015. Spanning DC to 140GHz, the devices suit defence, communications, instrumentation, industrial and aerospace applications.

Microsemi has announced the availability of its enhanced Quantum Rubidium Miniature Atomic Clock (MAC) SA.3X family. The company says that its enhanced Quantum MAC SA.3X family, based on Coherent Population Trapping (CPT) technology, is one of the industry’s smallest, lightest and highest-performing MACs, meeting all traditional broad market frequency reference application needs.

Microsemi has announced the RTG4 high-speed signal processing radiation-tolerant FPGA family. The RTG4’s reprogrammable flash technology offers complete immunity to radiation-induced configuration upsets in the harshest radiation environments, requiring no configuration scrubbing, unlike SRAM FPGA technology. RTG4 supports space applications requiring up to 150,000 logic elements and up to 300MHz of system performance.

A telemetry controller IC, which integrates the required functions in satellite telemetry systems and interfaces with radiation tolerant FPGAs, has been introduced by Microsemi. The LX7730 is the first device to be released from the company’s radiation tolerant Space System Manager (SSM) family of special purpose mixed signal devices.