Date: 24/10/2009

New UT130nHBD Digital ASIC family updates from Aeroflex

Aeroflex has released the UT130nHBD Digital ASIC family updates, designed for satellite applications.

The UT130nHBD ASICs offers radiation hardened from 100 krad to 300 krad (Si) total ionizing dose (TID) with up to 15,000,000 usable gates. Aeroflex Colorado Springs has a CAT1A trusted accreditation.

"Our customers have been driving the development of the UT130nHBD by using the beta release of the cell library for the past year" said Peter Milliken, director-semicustom products. "Customers are designing RadHard ASICs for space applications with this ASIC family. They require high performance operation with low dynamic power, a standard cell library with memory compilers, high speed I/O and core logic, gate densities comparable to commercial offerings, and validated radiation-hardened performance (TID, SEE, Dose Rate)."

The key features of the UT130nHBD ASICs are,

Power dissipation of 15nW/MHz/gate at 1.2V along with toggle rates up to 5.0GHz.

The cell library includes support for Design for Test and Design for Manufacturability, critical elements for delivering high quality, high reliability aerospace integrated circuits.

Special I/O cores include HSTL, CML, LVDS and PCI.

Design support is in place for Mentor Graphics and Synopsys in Verilog and VHDL design languages on Sun and Linux workstations.

All of Aeroflex's Digital RadHard ASICs are QML Q and V qualified.

Per customer requests, we are targeting single event upset (SEU) at <1.0E-10 errors/bit-day, single event latchup >110 MeV-cm2/mg at 125oC, dose rate upset at >6.6E9 (Si)/sec and projected neutron fluence at >1.0E14 n/sq cm.

"We have a 28-year history of supplying RadHard integrated circuits to the aerospace and defense community," continued Milliken. "As a fab-independent, Trusted CAT1A accredited supplier, we offer customers the benefits of state-of-the art technology processes and offer multiple foundry partners to produce the best ASIC for a customer's requirements. The UT130nHBD ASIC offering provides customers with access to high speed, low power, deep submicron technology allowing advantages in performance for aerospace and defense applications."

Availability: Toolkits for the UT130nHBD are available, optimized for low power operation and enhanced to meet radiation targets. All qualification plans are scheduled to be met by 3Q 2010.

For more details visit www.aeroflex.com

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