Designers of spaceflight-qualified systems have a great need to reduce development time, cost, and risk in their systems. Microchip Technology has proposed the concept of starting with commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) devices, then replacing them with space-qualified, radiation-tolerant (RT) equivalent parts. Now, Microchip is announcing that it has extended its family of COTS-based, RT SuperFlash devices for…
Infineon launches first space-qualified, serial-interface F-RAM
Infineon Technologies announced the availability of the space industry’s first radiation-hardened (rad-hard), serial -nterface Ferroelectric RAM (F-RAM) for extreme environments. The new devices deliver unsurpassed reliability and data retention and are more energy efficient than non-volatile EEPROM and serial NOR Flash devices for space applications. The addition of a QML-V qualified F-RAM to Infineon’s memory…
Microchip’s advanced power modules qualified to aerospace standards
In the race to reduce aircraft emissions, developers increasingly are moving toward more efficient designs including electrical systems that replace today’s pneumatics and hydraulics powering everything from on-board alternators to actuators and Auxiliary Power Units (APUs). To enable next-generation aircraft electrical systems, new power conversion technology is required. Microchip Technology has announced its development with…
Infineon offers first radiation-tolerant, NOR Flash memory for space-grade FPGAs
Space-grade field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) require reliable, high-density, non-volatile memories that contain their boot configurations. To address the growing need for high-reliability memories, Infineon Technologies announced the industry’s first high-density, radiation-tolerant (RadTol) NOR Flash memory products, qualified to MIL-PRF-38535’s QML-V flow (QML-V Equivalent). The QML-V flow is the highest quality standard certification for aerospace-grade ICs.…