Military and Aerospace Solutions

Microsemi has a 20-year history of providing innovative, programmable digital and analog logic solutions to the military and aerospace design community. Microsemi continues to introduce new, high-reliability products, such as the RTAX-DSP and RT ProASIC®3 product families for space and the SmartFusion, ProASIC3, ProASIC3EL, and Fusion families for military, while still addressing the design challenges and needs of emerging military and aerospace applications. Combining these durable and feature-rich devices with Microsemi's extensive portfolio of industry-proven IP cores, best-in-class software tools, and a technical support team dedicated to military/aerospace products, Microsemi delivers high-reliability solutions that are unparalleled in this industry.

Microsemi products offer the following benefits to military and aerospace customers:

• High levels of integration without ASIC NRE charges and schedule risk
• Variety of device screening levels to support avionics, military, and space applications
• Industries first military temp ARM Cortex-M3 based SmartFusion device
• Reprogrammability without sacrificing reliability (Military SmartFusion, Military ProASIC3/EL, Extended Temperature Fusion, RT ProASIC3)
• Embedded, hardwired radiation-tolerant DSP blocks (RTAX-DSP)
• Mixed signal FPGA solution to meet design needs at extreme temperatures (Fusion)
• Extended temperature range
  • -55°C to 125°C for military and space offerings (Military SmartFusion, Military ProASIC3/EL, RTAX-S/SL, RTAX-DSP, RTSX-SU, RT ProASIC3)
  • -55°C to 100°C for military offerings (Extended Temperature Fusion)
• Plastic and hermetically-sealed ceramic package offerings
• Immune to configuration upsets (heavy ions in space systems, neutrons in ground and air systems)
• Single-chip solution
• Live at power-up
• Radiation-hardened by design (RTAX-S/SL, RTAX-DSP, RTSX-SU)
• QML Qualification on specific products to Class Q and Class V
• AS9100 certification
• Comprehensive product change notification process
• Regularly published reliability data with failure analysis reports
• Extensive in-house testing capabilities

Microsemi supports high qualification levels for commercial avionics, military, and space applications. Products today are available with military or extended temperature screening (plastic and ceramic packages) or MIL-STD-883 Class B processing (ceramic packages only). Most space products are available with a higher level of screening (Microsemi Extended Flow). The RTAX-S/SL FPGAs achieved QML Class V qualification and are available in the MIL-PRF-38535 Class V flow. Microsemi continues working on achieving the QML Class V certification for RTAX-DSP FPGAs.

The time from design to production is a critical element in the aerospace and defense market, and system designers require a reputed supplier that can deliver entire solutions. Microsemi antifuse and flash families of FPGAs provide a graceful path from prototyping to production, using Microsemi standard software tools. A robust line of software IP cores available from Microsemi and its Partners can be utilized to solve many design challenges.

Due to the high reliability needs of military and aerospace applications, customers demand solutions that include both hardware and software to quickly implement and test their designs in extreme environments. Microsemi Corporation has recognized this need and has worked with leading solution providers to simplify the development task and speed up the design process, which gives designers more time to focus on the critical aspects of their design.

• DO-254 Verification
• DO-254-Certified IP Solutions
• RTAX-S/SL Prototyping with Flash Devices
• RTAX-S/SL LEON3 Development Board

For technical support on RH and RT FPGAs that are regulated by International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), contact us via the email or phone listed below. Alternatively, within My Cases, select Yes in the ITAR dropdown list. For a complete list of ITAR-regulated Microsemi FPGAs, visit the ITAR web page.

   Email: soc_tech_itar@microsemi.com
   Phone (NA): 888.988.ITAR
   Phone (Int'l): +1 650.318.4900