Space Launch: e2V, Peregrine Sign Reseller Pact

e2v and Peregrine Semiconductor have signed a strategic reseller agreement. It makes e2v the sole provider of Peregrine’s high-reliability integrated circuits (ICs) for the worldwide space market.
The strategic RF relationship brings together Peregrine’s expertise and proven track record in high-reliability RF and power management products with e2v’s leadership position in aerospace and defense qualified semiconductor products.
The result is a product offering that spans the signal chain from RF to back-end, including data converters, memory and high-performance data processing.
Peregrine is an MIL-PRF-38535 Qualified Manufacturers List (QML) certified supplier with a high-reliability standard catalog portfolio that includes RF switches, digital step attenuators (DSAs), prescalers, phase-locked loops (PLLs) and DC-DC converters. These UltraCMOS products, along with newly introduced Peregrine QML RFIC products, will be sold exclusively through e2v.
“For over 15 years, Peregrine’s high-reliability RF solutions have provided reliable communications to hundreds of satellite systems and in missions to seven planets and several asteroids,” says Duncan Pilgrim, vice president and general manager of Peregrine Semiconductor’s high performance analog (HPA) business unit. “This strategic RF relationship enables our space customers to benefit from e2v’s expertise in the aerospace and defense market, while continuing to achieve the high performance standards they expect from Peregrine’s UltraCMOS products.”
“e2v is excited to support Peregrine’s high-reliability, radiation-tolerant RFICs and DC-DC power management products, along with e2v’s existing space-grade product offering of broadband data converters and microprocessors,” says Brad Little, general manager of e2v inc. “This strategic agreement leverages the technology strengths of both companies and will provide our customers with a complete data-processing solution.”