Analog designers working infields such as aerospace, the defense and nuclear industries, telecommunications and medical electronics have long faced a special problem when trying to source application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) for their designs. Although digital ASICs have long been available with the degree of radiation hardening normally required for these applications, sourcing radiation-hardened (‘rad-hard’) analog ASICs has been much more difficult. In particular, the CMOS/SOS technology used very successfully to produce rad-hard digital ASICs has long been considered to be fundamentally unsuitable for analog designs. Only now has CMOS/SOS technology been developed to the point where highly integrated, high-performance rad-hard analog ASICSs can be made readily available — thanks to a breakthrough by Swedish semiconductor specialists ABB HAFO that is now opening up new opportunities for analog designers everywhere.


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    Title :

    Analog Asics Now Move Into Rad-Hard Applications With New Analog-Compatible SOS Technology


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    1991-06-01


    Size :

    3 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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