High-Performance Electronics for Defense & Security

Power matters. Security is non-negotiable and reliability is vital when it comes to defense applications such as radar and electronic warfare, autonomous weapons, guidance and control systems or secure communications. Increased automation in vehicles and weaponry, battlefield portability and increased mission life, as well as systems and tools to enhance situational awareness are predicated on electronics and systems that perform securely and reliably in harsh environments.

For equipment designers, this translates into electronics capable of secured wired and wireless communications, low power signal image processing and anti-tamper features. Supply chain trust is equally important, with uniquely identifiable devices underpinning true embedded system security. The need for a trusted, reliable and cyber-secure supply chain is even more important now as the global semiconductor consolidation continues to create intellectual property rights and manufacturing uncertainty in the market.

Common requirements for defense and security applications include:

• Broad operational envelope
• Signal processing intensive, constrained by power or heat dissipation
• High precision systems
• Fault tolerant
• Cyber Security and Anti-Tamper requirements
• Size, Weight, and Power/Cost (SWAPc) constrained

Microsemi’s product portfolio has a heritage for supporting the most demanding requirements in defense microelectronics, with our strategic focus on integrated circuit (IC) security, reliability, availability, integrity and supply chain security. Our broad product portfolio spans RF front end modules and discretes, Flash-based FPGAs, world class timing & frequency solutions, secure memory modules, a broad security IP portfolio and more. We’ve leveraged our expertise and product portfolio to build applications based solution platforms to reduce integration risk, improve productivity and time to mission.

Explore our solutions portfolio for defense:

• RF MMICs and discretes: Broad portfolio of high-reliability MMICs, Custom Integrated Microwave Assemblies (IMA) delivering the highest frequency range, best SWaP and diverse packaging options;
• Flash-based FGPAs/SoCs: Lowest power, most secure and SEU immune FPGAs/SoCs available in low-range and mid-range densities for a variety of applications;
• Root-of-Trust for anti-tamper: Layered anti-tamper solutions to achieve DoDI 5200.39 (Secure Boot FPGA^TM and Secure Boot CPU);
• Trusted ASIC development: Microsemi is a DMEA CAT1A supplier for with digital and mixed-signal, custom packaging ASIC Design Services for optimizing time-to-market, performance and low power;
• PCIe switches and retimers: Leading solutions for PCIe Gen3 connectivity and switching to CPUs, other endpoints and PCIe backplanes;
• SAS/SATA RAID and Host Bus Adapters (HBA): Hardware-encryption, delivering 30% lower power than the competition and a single software interface for HBA and RAID;
• Timing and Synchronization ICs and systems: Industry’s most comprehensive timing solutions including network synchronization, atomic clocks, IEEE 1588 PLLs and ICs for clock management and synthesis;
• Ethernet connectivity: Turnkey hardware and software solutions for Ethernet switches and Ethernet PHYs, with ns-accurate IEEE 1588 timestamping and 256-bit MACsec security;
• High-reliability power and protection devices including high-reliability transient voltage suppression (TVS) diodes;
• Audio and voice processors: Turnkey solutions (DSP and firmware) for echo cancellation and noise reduction applicable in a variety of defense applications

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