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Peregrine Claims World First With Rad Hard Prescalar IC
San Diego - Nov. 27, 2000 Peregrine Semiconductor, a leading supplier of high-performance communications-based integrated circuits to the optical networking and wireless markets, today announced the introduction of PE9301 - the world's first space-qualified Prescaler (Divide By 2) integrated circuit. An emerging product provider to space and defense customers, Peregrine Semiconductor is sampling the product and will have mass production available in June 2001 following full qualification. The PE9301 is a high performance monolithic CMOS prescaler with a fixed divide ratio of two. Its operating frequency range is 2.0 to 3.5 GHz, it is designed for low power operation (11.5mA @ 3V across frequency), and operates from a single supply. The PE9301 is the first in a family of space-qualified RF prescalers to be offered by Peregrine. Chuck Tabbert, director of space and defense products at Peregrine said, "Finally, space and defense designers are getting the same state-of-the-art RF functionality as their commercial counterparts and therefore do not have to degrade or derate system performance for radiation effects - this is Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) at its best." Built using Peregrine Semiconductor's Ultra Thin Silicon (UTSi�) Silicon-On-Sapphire (SOS) process, the PE9301 is expected to easily attain 300Krad(Si) total dose tolerance, is immune to any latch-up (well known for Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) technologies) and will show impressive Single Event Upset (SEU) tolerances (SEU<10-9/bit-day). "Peregrine is successfully adapting existing proven technologies and products to meet the needs of our space and defense customers," said Dr. Stav Prodromou, Peregrine's president and CEO. "Peregrine offers a somewhat unique situation to customers - they can look at our existing and emerging commercial products, pick features they need, and work with us to introduce hardened versions of those commercial products. The addition of the PE9301 to Peregrine Semiconductor's growing portfolio of products shows that we are innovative and dedicated to customer service." "This product is the stepping stone to greater integrated functionality sorely needed in the RF components of advanced satellite and military systems," said Tabbert. "We plan to rapidly expand Peregrine's space and defense product in the very near future." Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links Peregrine Semiconductor SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express Space Technology News - Applications and Research
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