Keysight Technologies, Inc., a technology company that delivers advanced design and validation solutions to help accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world, announced that it is first to gain Global Certification Forum (GCF) validation of a 5G location-based services (LBS) Assisted Galileo (A-Galileo) test case by combining 5G new radio (NR) and global navigation…
STMicroelectronics releases series of radiation-hardened ICs for satellites
STMicroelectronics, a global semiconductor provider serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, is simplifying the design and volume production of the new generation of reliable small, low-cost satellites to deliver services like earth observation and broadband internet from low-earth orbits (LEOs). ST’s new series of radiation-hardened power, analog, and logic ICs in low-cost plastic packages…
STMicroelectronics offers first automotive, triple-band GNSS in a single chip
STMicroelectronics, a global semiconductor provider serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, has introduced a world-first, automotive satellite-navigation chip that delivers high-quality position data needed by advanced driving systems. Joining ST’s Teseo V family, the STA8135GA is the first automotive-qualified, global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receiver to integrate a triple-band positioning measurement engine on-chip —…
Microchip’s new CSAC provides precise timing accuracy and stability
Advanced military platforms, ocean-bottom survey systems, and remote-sensing applications all require precise timing for mission success. Chip-scale atomic clocks (CSACs) ensure stable and accurate timing even when Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) time signals are unavailable. Microchip Technology is helping industrial and military system designers to meet this requirement, with its new SA65 CSAC — providing precise…
STMicroelectronics launches new RF LDMOS power transistors
STMicroelectronics is adding a broad range of new devices to the STPOWER family of LDMOS transistors, which comprises three different product series optimized for RF power amplifiers (PAs) in a variety of commercial and industrial applications. Featuring high efficiency and low thermal resistance and packaged to handle high RF power, STPOWER LDMOS devices combine a short conduction-channel…
Renesas launches radiation-hardened plastic portfolio for satellites
Renesas Electronics Corporation, a supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, has launched a new line of plastic-packaged radiation-hardened (rad-hard) devices for satellite, power-management systems. The four new devices include: ISL71001SLHM/SEHM point-of-load (POL) buck regulator ISL71610SLHM digital isolator ISL71710SLHM digital isolators ISL73033SLHM 100V GaN FET and integrated low-side driver By combining rad-hard assurance levels with the board…
Microchip integrates monitoring and management platform to protect 5G networks
Today’s 5G wireless infrastructure has more complex, higher-density synchronization needs than previous-generation networks and is highly dependent on the integrity of “live-sky” timing signals from the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS). Microchip Technology Inc. announced it has integrated its BlueSky GNSS Firewall with its TimePictra 11 synchronization monitoring and management platform to protect 5G networks…
Microchip earns JEDEC qualification for radiation-tolerant FPGA
Developers of small-satellite constellations and other systems used in New Space missions must deliver high reliability and radiation protection while meeting stringent cost and scheduling requirements. Microchip Technology has now given them a faster, more economical production path with the first radiation-tolerant (RT) FPGA that offers the low cost of a JEDEC-qualified plastic package, plus…
Mircrochip launches GaN MMIC power amplifier
Satellite communication systems use complex modulation schemes to achieve the blazingly fast data rates required to deliver video and broadband data. To attain this, they must deliver high RF output power while simultaneously ensuring the signals retain their desired characteristics. The new GMICP2731-10 GaN MMIC power amplifier from Microchip Technology helps meet both of these…
Invention Story of Satellite
World’s first ever satellite was launched on October 4, 1957 by Soviet Union. Weighing 183 pounds, it took around 98 minutes to orbit Earth. While launch of the satellite was just a single event, it marked the beginning of space age and steered new military, political, scientific and technological developments. White House declared plans of launching earth orbiting satellite and requested proposals from different governmental research agencies for undertaking development in July 1955. Vanguard proposal by Naval Research lab was picked for representing U.S during International Geophysical yr.