High-Performance Electronics for Defense & Security

Power matters. Security is non-negotiable and reliability is vital when it comes to defense applications such as radar and electronic warfare, autonomous weapons, guidance and control systems or secure communications. Increased automation in vehicles and weaponry, battlefield portability and increased mission life, as well as systems and tools to enhance situational awareness are predicated on electronics and systems that perform securely and reliably in harsh environments.

For equipment designers, this translates into electronics capable of secured wired and wireless communications, low power signal image processing and anti-tamper features. Supply chain trust is equally important, with uniquely identifiable devices underpinning true embedded system security. The need for a trusted, reliable and cyber-secure supply chain is even more important now as the global semiconductor consolidation continues to create intellectual property rights and manufacturing uncertainty in the market.

Common requirements for defense and security applications include:

• Broad operational envelope
• Signal processing intensive, constrained by power or heat dissipation
• High precision systems
• Fault tolerant
• Cyber Security and Anti-Tamper requirements
• Size, Weight, and Power/Cost (SWAPc) constrained

Microsemi’s product portfolio has a heritage for supporting the most demanding requirements in defense microelectronics, with our strategic focus on integrated circuit (IC) security, reliability, availability, integrity and supply chain security. Our broad product portfolio spans RF front end modules and discretes, Flash-based FPGAs, highly secure, accurate and flexible time and frequency platform for synchronizing mission-critical electronics systems and instrumentation applications, secure memory modules, a broad security IP portfolio and more. We’ve leveraged our expertise and product portfolio to build applications based solution platforms to reduce integration risk, improve productivity and time to mission.

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