• Integrated Power Solutions
• High Reliability Power Modules
• Power Switching Discretes
• FPGA and SoC
• Transient Voltage Suppression Diodes
• Analog Mixed-Signal ICs
• RF & Microwave Solutions
• Precision Frequency Control and SAW Filters
• PCIe Switches
• Ethernet Switches, PHYs, Software and PoE
• Security

• View Microsemi's Commercial Aviation Solutions Brochure. 
• View Microsemi's Integrated Power Solutions Product Brief

• View Microsemi's Aviation Center of Excellence Press Release

Integrated Power Solutions (IPS)

The flagship product for commercial aviation flight control actuation system applications is the power core module (PCM) targeted specifically at More Electric Aircraft (MEA). The PCM features the highest and most complex level integration within Integrated Power Solutions line of products. The PCM includes an integrated Microsemi Flash based FPGA and Hybrid Power Drive (HPD) stage. The PCM controls the electrical motors used in applications such as primary flight control actuation and landing gear systems. It interfaces seamlessly with the aircraft power supplies and flight computers via telemetry interface, providing vital sensor feedback for health monitoring. Customization options are also available to ensure an optimized product 

The HPD includes a power stage, integrated and solenoid drive, and power supplies.The HPD is also available as a sand-alone product.offering. 

Microsemi's first Integrated Motor Control Solutions are:

• MAICMMC40X120 Power Core Module with SiC Power Bridge including the Hybrid Power Drive and the control/telemetry monitoring
• MAIPDMC40X120 Hybrid Power Drive w/Three-Phase SiC Power Bridge and integrated gate drive

Documentation: Integrated Power Solutions Product Brief

Designed Power Ratings: 5 KVA – 40 KVA 115VAC – 230VAC variable frequency, 270VDC – 540VDC Input  Application Areas Primary and Secondary Flight Control Actuator Systems such as:         -Flaps and Slats         -Aileron         -Rudder         -Elevator         -Spoiler Air management systems Fuel Pumps Electro-hydraulic pumps Landing Gear and braking systems Engine Starters

Key Features Fully engineered solution with a high-level of integration Design optimized for size, weight, cost, and functionality Excellent performance, efficiency, and reliability Customized options available, leveraging standard building blocks, and reducing development time and cost High-power density options with power ratings starting at 5 kVA designed for both 270VDC and 540VDC buses Extensive modeling, simulation, and analysis support Documentation package with qualification and reliability data DO-160 EMC and Environmental Qualification  Long-term reliability program

High Reliability Power Modules

Microsemi is an industry leader in power module solutions for aviation applications. Microsemi's rugged power modules support many different power topologies giving customer high level of flexibility at a greater power density over discrete solutions.

For more than 20 years, the company's rugged power module solutions have been designed into key aviation applications including actuation, air conditioning, supplemental cooling, power generation, power control units, transformers and active rectification systems. With over 15 million cumulative flight hours on commercial aviation power systems Microsemi has evolved its technology to provide its customers consistent, reliable performance.

The portfolio features a wide range of hermetic and non-hermetic power switching module solutions for aircraft systems and we continue to evolve our product and capability roadmap to increase functionality, reduce weight and size, and improve reliability.

Key Features

• Broad portfolio of semiconductor technologies including:  (SiC MOSFETs, IGBTs, and Si MOSFETs)
• Wide operating temperatures (-60 °C to 200 °C) 
• Superior thermal performance
• Custom solutions and topologies to better meet application performances
• Mix of semiconductor and assembly technologies
• Low weight assembly materials with temperature expansion matching

Power Switching Discretes

Microsemi is a pioneer in creating power switching devices and has been doing so since 1960. These devices form the foundation of power conversion, generation, and electrical motor control for commercial aviation applications.
Microsemi's current offering includes Rectifier Diodes, IGBTs, Power MOSFETs, and BJTs. A vast majority of Microsemi's discrete portfolios is qualified to MIL-PRF-19500. These QPL devices come in JAN, JANTX, JANTXV, JANS qualification levels. Many devices are available with our M-flow screening option. This special flow has been designed to reduce cost but maintain a higher level of reliability over COTs solutions.
Microsemi is also inventing the development of a wide range of Wide Bandgap Silicon Carbside (SiC) discrete semiconductors including SiC Schottky diodes and MOSFETs for More electric Aircraft (MEA) applications. SiC technology will improve the overall system efficiency, enabling MEA goals: optimize aircraft performance, decrease operating and maintenance costs, increase dispatch reliability, and reduce gas emissions. Microsemi devices are fully AEC-Q101 qualified and will offer the industries best UIS rating ensuring maximum ruggedness of the technology.

Key Features

• Desgined for Ruggedness:
• Highes UIS, repetitive UIS and short circuit withstand rating
• AEC-Q101 qualification in progress on next-generation Device
• Low R_DS(on) variation over temperature
• Extended temperature range: T_J up to 175°C
• Lowest gate resistance
• Best-in-class SiC 700 V, 1200V, 1700 V MOSFETs and Diodes. 3.3 kV in development
• Lowest conduction losses at operating temperature

FPGA and SoC

Microsemi supplies innovative FPGAs based on antifuse and flash technologies, and also offers high-performance intellectual property (IP) cores, software development tools, and design services that are optimized for the high-reliability commercial aviation market. Our FPGA families have a 20-plus-year heritage of proven performance across product deployments in hundreds of commercial aviation systems on Airbus, Boeing, and other aircraft.
These devices perform critical functions in design assurance level (DAL) A and B applications such as flight computers, braking systems, cockpit displays, engine controls, actuator systems, safety warning systems, cabin data management, in-flight entertainment, and more.

Key Features

• Best-in-class integration, power, reliability and security
• Extended temperature range (-55°C to 135 °C)
• SEU immunity of configuration cells on both flash and antifuse-based devices
• Dissimilar technologies (antifuse and flash) to meet system redundancy needs
• More than 20 years of continuous product supply
• Motor control IP and development platform
• IP support for ARINC 429 and MIL-STD-1553 standards
• Validation artifacts to assist with DO-254 certification
• Extensive flight heritage
• Up to 500K Logic Elements (LEs)
• Transceiver Performance up to 12.7 Gbps

Transient Voltage Suppression Diodes

An aircraft is hit by lightning approximately once every 1000 flight hours. Transient Voltage Suppression Diodes provide critical protection by going into avalanche breakdown within no more than a few nanoseconds after a strike, clamping the transient voltage, and routing its current to the ground.
Between 2,000 and 5,000 Microsemi TVS diode devices have been deployed, per plane, across all major commercial airframes that are now in use throughout the industry. The company's TVS products are used in various flight-critical applications including flight control systems, multiple engine control units, and actuator controls, as well as a variety of power distribution, environmental control, communications and instrumentation systems.

Key Features

• Wide voltage and power range of both unidirectional and bi-directional TVS devices
• Industry-leading applications support and solutions for DO-160 and special requirements
• Innovative packaging technology (PLAD™ and PowerMite™)
• Low capacitance signal protection for FPGAs, MCUs, or ASICs
• Controlled die foundries, assembly, and screening locations
• Extensive electrical test capability and continuous reliability monitoring

Analog Mixed-Signal ICs

Microsemi has an established history of providing standard and custom high-reliability ICs to the aviation market. Our access to several process technologies and expertise in application specific, highly integrated circuit design has enabled us to offer leading solutions for embedded aviation systems.

Our sensor interface ICs support multiple sensing application s including proximity and position sensing. Our integrated circuit technology has been designed into multiple aviation applications including:

• LVDT controllers
• Navigation gyro controllers
• Solid-state circuit breakers
• ARINC 429 TX/RX/ID systems 

Key Features

• Best-in-class functional integration
• Significant space saving benefits
• Extended temperature range to 225°C
• Single event immunity
• Extensive flight heritage
• Standard and full custom capability
• Innovative custom packaging
• Telemetry and motor control capability

RF & Microwave Solutions for Commercial Aviation

Microsemi brings a comprehensive high-reliability product portfolio to air traffic control and commercial aviation applications, and has supplied high-performance RF solutions, microwave and millimeter wave devices, components and integrated assemblies for more than 30 years.

Microsemi offers microwave and millimeter wave antenna-tobits solutions with a progressive emphasis on high-performance semiconductor (CMOS, SiGe, GaAs, GaN, and InP) and packaging technologies. This approach allows us to work continuously with industry leaders in the company's target markets to solve complex engineering problems at the discrete, RFIC, MMIC, module, and subsystem levels.

Key Features

Discretes and MMICs

• Extensive portfolio spanning 10 MHz to 140 GHz frequency range
• Broad range of high-speed, high-power RF and microwave diodes
• GaN-on-SiC HEMT RF power transistors for VHF/UHF/L/S/C-band to 1400 W
• Si BJTs RF power transistors through 3.5 GHz to 1200 W
• Broadband MMICs to 65 GHz

Microwave Modules and Subsystems

• High-power amplifiers to 4 kW
• Low noise, limiting, and low phase noise amplifiers
• Up/Down converters and full transceivers
• RF/microwave, analog, and digital integration
• Packaging, form-factor, and screening to custom specifications

Crystal Oscillators and Surface Acoustic Wave Filters

Microsemi is a global leader in designing and manufacturing a comprehensive portfolio of timing solutions including rubidium oscillators, crystals, crystal oscillators (XO, VCXO, TCXO, OCXO, EMXO, VCSO), crystal filters, Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) filters, and oscillator based modules for commercial aviation. We work closely with our customers to understand the application to develop the optimum solution that meets your requirements.

There are multiple applications for precision frequency control products in aviation, including radar, communications, engine control and navigation. Microsemi offers oscillators and saw filters for these applications. 

Aviation applications present a unique set of challenges for frequency control products. Rapid and constant variations in temperature, pressure, and humidity degrade the long-term reliability and frequency stability of standard commercial oscillators and saw filters.  Vibrations from engines and turbulence affect the survivability and spectral purity of the products.  Microsemi offers products specifically engineered to eliminate or minimize the impact of these environmental conditions.  

Key Features

SAW Filters

• Fully integrated diplexer solutions for dual band (1200MHz + 1600MHz) GNSS receivers supporting all major receiver architectures
• Solutions for commercial applications, covering multi–system architectures (GPS + Glonass + Galileo + Beidou) and for single–system (GPS) architectures
• Miniature and hermetic LTCC package 2.0mm x 1.6 mm² for applications requiring high performance in harsh environments
• High power handling capabilities for professional applications with potential strong interferers
• Low insertion loss
• Low group delay and phase ripple

Crystal Oscillators

• Solution size as small as 2.0 x 1.6 x 0.7 mm
• Frequencies supported from 32kHz to Microwave
• -55°C to 125°C operating temperatures
• Fast warm up OCXOs
• Low g-sensitivity products provide immunity to degradation to phase noise and stability due to vibration and acceleration
• Ruggedized, hermetic solutions to withstand shock, vibration, pressure, humidity, and variations in temperature

PCIe Switches

Microsemi Switchtec PCIe Gen3 Switches are the industry’s highest density, lowest power, high-reliability PCIe Gen3 switches for commercial aviation. To support a higher count of sensors and electronics with the More Electric Aircraft (MEA) movement, data throughput increases, driving a need for higher bandwidth and high-speed communication peripherals. Gen3 currently supports up to 8 GT/s interconnect performance bandwidth, with a roadmap up to 16 GT/s. Typical storage implementations for in-flight entertainment and video on-demand storage utilize ×2, ×4, ×8, and ×16 lane width interconnect configurations from the host root complex directly, or through PCIe switches, to endpoint PCIe storage devices.

Key Features

• Secure data communications
• Key storage using Physically Unclonable Function (PUF)

• Full design IP protection
• Anti-tamper
• Bitstream authentication

• Licensed Patent Protected Differential Power Analysis (DPA) Countermeasures
• Security protocols independently Certified to be DPA resistant

Engine Systems & Controls

Cabin Management Systems

Cockpit Avionics

Actuation Systems

RF & Microwave Systems