As a kid I remember laying out in a field, looking up at the sky and watching an airplane float through the air and dreaming of what it would be like to be up there flying. Some years later a friend invited me to go for a ride in his Citabria Champ doing chandelles and Cuban eights – what a rush. Just keeping my head up under the g-force was pretty exciting, let alone watching the earth and sky spin around.
I love going to airshows and seeing the sleek airplanes and watching the acrobatics. This year one of the world’s top airshows is the Farnborough Airshow in the UK. This is the same airshow that alternates every year with the Paris Airshow in Le Bourget, France. The Farnborough Airshow is much more than just planes and acrobatics. It’s also a place to see all the latest in aircraft and spacecraft design including engines, airframes and electronics.
This year, for the first time, ON Semiconductor will be exhibiting at the Farnborough Airshow. We’ll be highlighting our Digital ASIC, Mixed-Signal ASIC Foundry and Image Sensor products and services targeting Avionics, Defense and Space applications.
Some highlights include support for DO-254 certification requirements covering a wide range of CMOS process technologies from 0.5um to 40nm and an extensive IP library including ARM and PowerPC processors along with error correction, encryption and anti-tamper capabilities. We can show you our flexible ASIC design interfaces and ability to convert FPGA designs to highly reliable ASICs.
If you are looking for ASIC foundry services, we can share information on our US-based foundries with CMOS, BCD and High-Voltage processes, including processes with high SEL immunity. Or you might be interested in our Category 1A Trusted Broker, Design and Foundry services.
Our line of image sensors for terrestrial and space applications is really cool. We recently acquired Truesense Imaging with their line of CCD imagers. In combination with our CMOS image sensors, we now have an impressive line of imagers with resolutions from VGA to 50 Mega-pixel with high-speed devices taking thousands of frames per second. Some have space level radiation tolerance for applications such as star trackers for satellite navigation and space cameras for earth observation and space exploration. Several of our CCD image sensors have even been wandering around Mars for a while on the Curiosity rover.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
When it comes to high-speed CMOS image sensors, our global shutter technology is second to none.
Come see us at the Farnborough International Airport from July 14-20, 2014. We will be in Hall 2, booth A13. One of our product specialists would greatly enjoy the opportunity to discuss our latest technologies with you. http://www.farnborough.com/