Among many diverse semiconductor business units,
the Microsemi RF Integrated Solutions (RFIS) business
unit was created in 2010 to best cohesively serve
the RF, microwave, and millimeter wave products
market. Along with diode and amplifier products were
included RF and microwave power transistor products.
The Microsemi RF and microwave power transistor
products group specializes in supporting customers
in the avionics, communications, and radar markets
with full line-ups of products meeting the demanding
requirements of transmitter amplifier systems, operating
in airborne, ground based, missile, ship borne and
space environments.
The Microsemi RFIS RF and microwave power
transistor products line heritage spans more than
35 years and includes legacy CW and high pulsed
power silicon bipolar junction transistor (BJT) devices
and products originally designed by Acrian, GHz
Technology, Advanced Power Technologies, Microwave
Semiconductor Corporation, Motorola Semiconductor,
Solid State Scientific, and SGS Thompson
Microelectronics (ST). Whether an airborne IFF (Identify
Friend or Foe), ground based primary surveillance
radar, or for satellite borne communications or imaging,
in the high reliability market most RF and microwave
power amplifier transmitter systems are designed for
a product life cycle of 15 to well beyond 25 years.
Microsemi RF & microwave transistor product offerings
are unique in supporting applications throughout
the full life cycle and thereby have cultivated a long
standing relationship with major system manufacturers
worldwide. Our Santa Clara California silicon wafer
foundry and Bend Oregon silicon and silicon carbide
wafer foundries produce a very broad range of transistor
die covering the frequencies from HF through 3.5
GHz, CW and Pulsed. Our facilities are fully ISO9001
certified and supply product for commercial, defense
and space applications. Automated assembly and test
equipment assures Microsemi customers consistent
high quality products resulting in highest factory yields
achievable which is passed on to Microsemi customers
as the lowest cost of ownership. Combined with the
use of the most advanced modern equipment for
both manufacturing and test, is statistical process
control (SPC) to achieve the best continual process
improvement (CPI).
Our Mission and Goals
Our mission is to be the world leader in high power
silicon and wide band gap (WBG) RF and microwave
power transistors for avionics, communications and
radar systems. With a sustained high research and
development investment and a keen eye for accretive
acquisitions, Microsemi will continue to be the market
leader, always pushing the performance envelope by
along with the best, and most efficient power amplifier
driver transistors, continually introducing the highest
power state of the art, most rugged and reliable RF,
microwave, and millimeter wave transistor products.
Whether a die, a packaged transistor, a 50Ω input
and output plug and play transistor pallet, or a more
integrated amplifier assembly, simply: The Microsemi
goal is to provide the customer with products that meet
all specified requirements over the life of the program.
This ensures that our customers will always achieve the
optimum system performance and lowest total cost of
ownership.
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