Microsemi Corporation is known as the leading provider of semiconductor that offers security, power, performance, and reliability. Microsemi is also a provider of system solutions for communications, aerospace and industrial markets, defense and security. Some of their products include FPGAs, SoCs (system on chip), ASICs, timing and synchronizations devices, power management products, and other electronic design devices.
The SmartFusion®2 is a system on chip or Soc/SOC developed by Microsemi, which is a type of an integrated system that integrates all components of an electronic or computer system in a single chip.
Ultra Communications or UltraComm on the other hand is the innovative developer and the one that supplies highly compact and robust photonic components for harsh environment applications such as military airframes, satellites, cell phone base station applications, UAV, and missiles. UltraComm also developed hybrid IC and optoelectronic integration, which gives the ability to manufacture standard planar photonic packages, single chip integration of multiple functions, operate in a radiation environment, optically monitored Vertical Cavity Surface Emitter Lasers (VCSEL), operation in wide temperature range, and high resolution OTDR ASICs.
UltraComm has developed X80 Fury transceivers and they are successful in interoperating it with Microsemi’s SmartFusion®2 SoC FPGAs and IGLOO®2 FPGAs. The merging of two technologies validates the robustness of the mainstream SERDES transceivers. UltraComm has achieved its objective of further improving the ruggedness and reaching the full potential of the component density of the transceivers by selecting Microsemi SmartFusion2 SoC FPGAs and IGLOO2 FPGAs in this interoperability exercise.
The move of UltraComm to team up with Microsemi technology meets the strict requirements of next-generation commercial and defense aviation applications.
The senior director of SoC product line marketing of Microsemi, ShakeelPeera, said that the fact the UltraComm chose Microsemi SmartFusion2 SoC FPGA and IGLOO2 FPGA families to perform the interoperability exercise is considered by many consumers as a very valuable benchmark. The X80 Fury Transceivers of UltraComm gives a sustained 5G performance when interoperated with Microsemi’s SmartFusion2 SoC FPGAs and IGLOO FPGAs.
The interoperability test demonstrates the importance of integrating UltraComm optical module-based transceivers with Microsemi’s FPGAs in commercial and defense aviation systems. The performance is increasing while reducing SWaP (size, weight and power) which led to lower cost but with unrivaled reliability and security.
Chuck Tubbert, vice president for sales and marketing at Ultracomm, said that the integration of X80 Fury transceivers in Microsemi’s FPGAs gives aviation market and customers in critical-mission defense a platform in which they can build high reliability end-to-end fiber optic-based data transport solution and X80 platform that excels in a harsh fiber optic environment.
With this integration, Microsemi and Ultra Communications team up is seen as a valuable one.
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