DARPA reports that a team of researchers at the University of Southern California and Columbia University has achieved output power levels of nearly 0.5W at 45 GHz with a 45nm SOI CMOS chip. This world record result for CMOS-based power amplifiers doubles output power compared to the next best reported CMOS millimeter-wave power amplifier. The …

Sandia National Laboratories’ fab in Albuquerque, N.M., has been accredited by the U.S. Department of Defense to provide “trusted foundry” services for its strategically radiation-hardened, 3.3-volt, 0.35-micrometer SOI process, which produces custom, low-volume, high reliability ASICs for conditions of extreme temperature fluctuations, shock and radiation.

Honeywell Aerospace has introduced the HXSR06432, a high-performance SRAM on 150nm SOI. It is designed for use in low voltage systems operating in radiation sensitive environments.

Texas Instruments’ new ADS5400 analog-to-digital-converter (ADC) combines 12 bits of resolution with a 1-GSPS sampling rate, effectively doubling the amount of signal bandwidth that can be captured in a single ADC. It enables designers to create smaller, higher-performance and higher-density wide-bandwidth receivers and digitizers. Developed on TI’s high-speed, BiCom3 SOI, it is well suited for …

New high-temperature, SOI-based products from Cissoid: The new CHT-NMOS40 family of High Temperature 40V N-channel power MOSFET Transistors, enabling the design of any system requiring reliable power control in a harsh environment from -55°C to +225°C. Vesuvio, the world’s first 225°C DC-DC converter platform for high reliability and electric vehicle applications. Hyperion, a high temperature …

Ametek Aerospace & Defense credits its SOI-based hydraulic pressure transducers with the win to supply the ultra-long range, top-of-the-line new Gulfstream G650 business jet. SOI enables much longer design accuracy, resulting in more accurate system performance with reduced weight and reduced cost of ownership for aircraft operators.

Developed under the US DOE’s Deep Trek Program, Honeywell Aerospace’ new SOI-based HTOP01 is designed for both jet engine instrumentation and control, as well as the oil industry’s deep drilling operations.

Advanced engineered substrates are a key to the Raytheon-led DARPA COSMOS project to integrate compound semiconductors and silicon CMOS on a single chip. In what we believe to be an industry first, a Raytheon Company-led team has demonstrated the industry’s first Indium Phosphide (InP)-based heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) fabricated on a silicon wafer. HBTs are …

UMS, which is jointly owned by Thales and EADS, is moving forward on GaN for some key applications. United Monolithic Semiconductors (UMS) is a leader in the design, manufacturing and marketing of advanced semiconductor technology for a number of specialized application areas. The company sees advantages in moving from GaAs to GaN for some of …

Kopin, which bases all its displays on SOI, announced: • The 0.44″ CyberDisplay® SVGA LVS microdisplay, billed as the smallest color SVGA display in the LCD industry. 45% smaller and 30% lower power, it targets PC and HDrelated video eyewear applications. • The new CyberDisplay® 640M LVR display has been chosen for the U.S. Army’s …