Commercial Aviation
OverviewCommercial Aviation Infrastructure SolutionsMicrosemi technology has been used in all major commercial aviation platforms for many decades. Our broad product portfolio and capabilities, along with a proven track record of innovation, quality and reliability on aerospace platforms over the past 20 years, positions Microsemi to be a key partner on existing and future aerospace platforms. We continue to leverage our technology and extensive capabilities in this segment to support the ever-increasing electronic content in today's aircraft. Microsemi has evolved to become a leading edge systems solution provider for the most demanding aerospace applications.
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High Reliability Power Modules
Microsemi is an industry leader in power module solutions for aviation applications. Microsemi's rugged power modules support many different power topologies giving customer high level of flexibility at a greater power density over discrete solutions.
For more than 20 years, the company's rugged power module solutions have been designed into key aviation applications including actuation, air conditioning, supplemental cooling, power generation, power control units, transformers and active rectification systems. With over 15 million cumulative flight hours on commercial aviation power systems Microsemi has evolved its technology to provide its customers consistent, reliable performance.
The portfolio features a wide range of hermetic and non-hermetic power switching module solutions for aircraft systems and we continue to evolve our product and capability roadmap to increase functionality, reduce weight and size, and improve reliability.
Key Features
- Broad portfolio of semiconductor technologies including: (SiC MOSFETs, IGBTs, and Si MOSFETs)
- Wide operating temperatures (-60 °C to 200 °C)
- Superior thermal performance
- Custom solutions and topologies to better meet application performances
- Mix of semiconductor and assembly technologies
- Low weight assembly materials with temperature expansion matching
Power Switching Discretes
Microsemi is a pioneer in creating power switching devices and has been doing so since 1960. These devices form the foundation of power conversion, generation, and electrical motor control for commercial aviation applications.
Microsemi's current offering includes Rectifier Diodes, IGBTs, Power MOSFETs, and BJTs. A vast majority of Microsemi's discrete portfolios is qualified to MIL-PRF-19500. These QPL devices come in JAN, JANTX, JANTXV, JANS qualification levels. Many devices are available with our M-flow screening option. This special flow has been designed to reduce cost but maintain a higher level of reliability over COTs solutions.
Microsemi is also inventing the development of a wide range of Wide Bandgap Silicon Carbside (SiC) discrete semiconductors including SiC Schottky diodes and MOSFETs for More electric Aircraft (MEA) applications. SiC technology will improve the overall system efficiency, enabling MEA goals: optimize aircraft performance, decrease operating and maintenance costs, increase dispatch reliability, and reduce gas emissions. Microsemi devices are fully AEC-Q101 qualified and will offer the industries best UIS rating ensuring maximum ruggedness of the technology.
Key Features
- Desgined for Ruggedness:
- Highes UIS, repetitive UIS and short circuit withstand rating
- AEC-Q101 qualification in progress on next-generation Device
- Low RDS(on) variation over temperature
- Extended temperature range: TJ up to 175°C
- Lowest gate resistance
- Best-in-class SiC 700 V, 1200V, 1700 V MOSFETs and Diodes. 3.3 kV in development
- Lowest conduction losses at operating temperature
FPGA and SoC
Microsemi supplies innovative FPGAs based on antifuse and flash technologies, and also offers high-performance intellectual property (IP) cores, software development tools, and design services that are optimized for the high-reliability commercial aviation market. Our FPGA families have a 20-plus-year heritage of proven performance across product deployments in hundreds of commercial aviation systems on Airbus, Boeing, and other aircraft.
These devices perform critical functions in design assurance level (DAL) A and B applications such as flight computers, braking systems, cockpit displays, engine controls, actuator systems, safety warning systems, cabin data management, in-flight entertainment, and more.
Key Features
- Best-in-class integration, power, reliability and security
- Extended temperature range (-55°C to 135 °C)
- SEU immunity of configuration cells on both flash and antifuse-based devices
- Dissimilar technologies (antifuse and flash) to meet system redundancy needs
- More than 20 years of continuous product supply
- Motor control IP and development platform
- IP support for ARINC 429 and MIL-STD-1553 standards
- Validation artifacts to assist with DO-254 certification
- Extensive flight heritage
- Up to 500K Logic Elements (LEs)
- Transceiver Performance up to 12.7 Gbps
Transient Voltage Suppression Diodes
An aircraft is hit by lightning approximately once every 1000 flight hours. Transient Voltage Suppression Diodes provide critical protection by going into avalanche breakdown within no more than a few nanoseconds after a strike, clamping the transient voltage, and routing its current to the ground.
Between 2,000 and 5,000 Microsemi TVS diode devices have been deployed, per plane, across all major commercial airframes that are now in use throughout the industry. The company's TVS products are used in various flight-critical applications including flight control systems, multiple engine control units, and actuator controls, as well as a variety of power distribution, environmental control, communications and instrumentation systems.
Key Features
- Wide voltage and power range of both unidirectional and bi-directional TVS devices
- Industry-leading applications support and solutions for DO-160 and special requirements
- Innovative packaging technology (PLAD™ and PowerMite™)
- Low capacitance signal protection for FPGAs, MCUs, or ASICs
- Controlled die foundries, assembly, and screening locations
- Extensive electrical test capability and continuous reliability monitoring
Analog Mixed-Signal ICs
Microsemi has an established history of providing standard and custom high-reliability ICs to the aviation market. Our access to several process technologies and expertise in application specific, highly integrated circuit design has enabled us to offer leading solutions for embedded aviation systems.
Our sensor interface ICs support multiple sensing application s including proximity and position sensing. Our integrated circuit technology has been designed into multiple aviation applications including:
- LVDT controllers
- Navigation gyro controllers
- Solid-state circuit breakers
- ARINC 429 TX/RX/ID systems
Key Features
- Best-in-class functional integration
- Significant space saving benefits
- Extended temperature range to 225°C
- Single event immunity
- Extensive flight heritage
- Standard and full custom capability
- Innovative custom packaging
- Telemetry and motor control capability
RF & Microwave Solutions for Commercial Aviation
Microsemi brings a comprehensive high-reliability product portfolio to air traffic control and commercial aviation applications, and has supplied high-performance RF solutions, microwave and millimeter wave devices, components and integrated assemblies for more than 30 years.
Microsemi offers microwave and millimeter wave antenna-tobits solutions with a progressive emphasis on high-performance semiconductor (CMOS, SiGe, GaAs, GaN, and InP) and packaging technologies. This approach allows us to work continuously with industry leaders in the company's target markets to solve complex engineering problems at the discrete, RFIC, MMIC, module, and subsystem levels.
Key Features
Discretes and MMICs
- Extensive portfolio spanning 10 MHz to 140 GHz frequency range
- Broad range of high-speed, high-power RF and microwave diodes
- GaN-on-SiC HEMT RF power transistors for VHF/UHF/L/S/C-band to 1400 W
- Si BJTs RF power transistors through 3.5 GHz to 1200 W
- Broadband MMICs to 65 GHz
Microwave Modules and Subsystems
- High-power amplifiers to 4 kW
- Low noise, limiting, and low phase noise amplifiers
- Up/Down converters and full transceivers
- RF/microwave, analog, and digital integration
- Packaging, form-factor, and screening to custom specifications
Crystal Oscillators and Surface Acoustic Wave Filters
Microsemi is a global leader in designing and manufacturing a comprehensive portfolio of timing solutions including rubidium oscillators, crystals, crystal oscillators (XO, VCXO, TCXO, OCXO, EMXO, VCSO), crystal filters, Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) filters, and oscillator based modules for commercial aviation. We work closely with our customers to understand the application to develop the optimum solution that meets your requirements.
There are multiple applications for precision frequency control products in aviation, including radar, communications, engine control and navigation. Microsemi offers oscillators and saw filters for these applications.
Aviation applications present a unique set of challenges for frequency control products. Rapid and constant variations in temperature, pressure, and humidity degrade the long-term reliability and frequency stability of standard commercial oscillators and saw filters. Vibrations from engines and turbulence affect the survivability and spectral purity of the products. Microsemi offers products specifically engineered to eliminate or minimize the impact of these environmental conditions.
Key Features
SAW Filters
- Fully integrated diplexer solutions for dual band (1200MHz + 1600MHz) GNSS receivers supporting all major receiver architectures
- Solutions for commercial applications, covering multi–system architectures (GPS + Glonass + Galileo + Beidou) and for single–system (GPS) architectures
- Miniature and hermetic LTCC package 2.0mm x 1.6 mm² for applications requiring high performance in harsh environments
- High power handling capabilities for professional applications with potential strong interferers
- Low insertion loss
- Low group delay and phase ripple
Crystal Oscillators
- Solution size as small as 2.0 x 1.6 x 0.7 mm
- Frequencies supported from 32kHz to Microwave
- -55°C to 125°C operating temperatures
- Fast warm up OCXOs
- Low g-sensitivity products provide immunity to degradation to phase noise and stability due to vibration and acceleration
- Ruggedized, hermetic solutions to withstand shock, vibration, pressure, humidity, and variations in temperature
PCIe Switches
Microsemi Switchtec PCIe Gen3 Switches are the industry’s highest density, lowest power, high-reliability PCIe Gen3 switches for commercial aviation. To support a higher count of sensors and electronics with the More Electric Aircraft (MEA) movement, data throughput increases, driving a need for higher bandwidth and high-speed communication peripherals. Gen3 currently supports up to 8 GT/s interconnect performance bandwidth, with a roadmap up to 16 GT/s. Typical storage implementations for in-flight entertainment and video on-demand storage utilize ×2, ×4, ×8, and ×16 lane width interconnect configurations from the host root complex directly, or through PCIe switches, to endpoint PCIe storage devices.
Key Features
- Up to 174 GB/s switching capacity
- 96-lane, 80-lane, 64-lane, 48-lane, 32-lane, and 24-lane variants
- Ports bifurcate to x2/x4/x8/x16 lanes
- Up to 48 NTBs assignable to any port
- Logical non-transparent (NT) interconnect allows forlarger topologies
- Supports 1+1 and N+1 failover mechanisms
- NT address translation using direct windows and multiple sub-windows per BAR
- Extended temperature range (-40°C TA to 105°C TJ)
Error Containment
- Advanced Error Reporting (AER) on all ports
- Downstream Port Containment (DPC) on all downstream ports
- Poisoned TLP blocking
- Completion Timeout Synthesis (CTS) to prevent an error state in an upstream host due to incomplete non-posted transactions
- Hot- and surprise-plug controllers per port
- GPIOs configurable for different cable/connector standards
Ethernet Switches, PHYs, Software and Power-over-Ethernet
With over 300 million Gigabit Ethernet ports shipped, Microsemi is a global leader in Ethernet switch and physical layer IC technology and IP. As industrial networks and other market segments worldwide have transitioned to Ethernet, Microsemi has been at the forefront of this transition with a growing portfolio of products with advanced features and efficient architectures that result in low power, scalability and highly reliable performance in the transmission of voice, video and data.
Key Features
• Faster time to production with complete hardware and software solutions
• Ethernet switch solutions with up to 100 Gbps of bandwidth
• Small package footprint designs
• Industrial temperature range operation
• Complete IEEE 1588-compliant 1Gbit/s and 10Gbit/s PHYs with time nanosecond stamping while performing AES-256 MACSec
• Solutions with low-alpha mold compound, improving overall SEU immunity
• Power-over-Ethernet PSE and PD ICs for powering entertainment units
Security
Commercial aviation systems and applications keep pushing toward More Electric Aircraft (MEA) to improve fuel efficiency, support a higher count of electrical actuators and sensors, and to support higher data throughput for high speed communications. Increasing the number of electronic components increases the risk of security threats, particularly for programmable electronics, which have control over a large electronic system. Security sensitive and critical applications in commercial aviation include Design Assurance Level (DAL) A and B applications such as the main flight computers, cockpit displays, engine controls, actuator systems, braking systems, safety warning systems, cabin managements system and more.
Security starts during silicon manufacturing and continues through system deployment and operations. Microsemi's flash-based FPGAs represent the industry's most advanced secure programmable FPGAs.
Our flashed-based FPGA's include key capabilities required to create a trusted and secure hardware platform for a secure embedded system making them invulnerable to cloning, copying, and reverse engineering. Sensitive data in embedded systems is protected from attacks and uncompromised.
Key Features
- Secure data communications
- Key storage using Physically Unclonable Function (PUF)
- Full design IP protection
- Anti-tamper
- Bitstream authentication
- Licensed Patent Protected Differential Power Analysis (DPA) Countermeasures
- Security protocols independently Certified to be DPA resistant
Resources
Microsemi is an industry leader in commercial aviation. Our broad product portfolio and capabilities, along with a proven track record of innovation, quality and reliability on commercial aviation applications over the past 20 years, positions Microsemi to be a key partner on existing and future aviation platforms.
Microsemi is providing several DO-254 validation artifacts for a variety of IP solutions in our Igloo2, SmartFusion2, and Polar Fire products.
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SmartFusion2 & Igloo2 Validation Artifacts
G4M-Main AHB Verification and Validation Report | 1.14 MB | 09/2014 | |
G4M-eSRAM to AHB Verification and Validation Report | 1.00 MB | 09/2014 | |
G4M-FDDR Verification and Validation Report | 1.28 MB | 09/2014 | |
G4M-Mathblock Verification and Validation Report | 2.21 MB | 09/2014 | |
G4M-MDDR Verification and Validation Report | 442 KB | 09/2014 | |
CAN Conformance Test Report | 1.58 MB | 06/2013 | |
G4M-PCIe Verification and Validation Report | 1.37 MB | 10/2014 |
PolarFire Validation Artifacts
PolarFire-LSRAM-uSRAM-uPROM Validation Results | 4.20 MB | 05/2018 | |
PolarFire-Mathblock Silicon Validation Results | 1.51 MB | 03/2018 | |
PolarFire-PCIe Root Port Silicon Validation Results | 4.33 MB | 06/2019 |
Microsemi provides these reports upon request. We compiled a product dissimilarity chart to help our customers choosing dissimilar FPGAs from different product families for redundant systems.
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Featured Parts
Product Directory
- FPGAs IGLOO2 FPGAs
- SoC FPGAs SmartFusion2 SoC
- Ethernet and PoE Solutions Ethernet PHYs
- Ethernet and PoE Solutions Ethernet Switches
- Product & Services Directory Circuit Protection
- Circuit Protection Transient Voltage Suppressors (TVS)
- Drivers, Interfaces, and PCIe Switches Inductive Position Sensors
- Military-grade Devices High-Reliability Integrated Power Solutions
- Product & Services Directory Power Discretes & Modules
- Silicon Carbide (SiC) Semiconductor SiC MOSFET
- SiC Modules SiC MOSFET Modules
- Power Discretes & Modules Diode and Rectifier Devices
- Product & Services Directory Power Management
- Product & Services Directory RF, Microwave & Millimeter Wave
- RF, Microwave & Millimeter Wave RF, Microwave, mmW MMIC Amplifier & Control Products