Peregrine Semiconductor Makes e2v Exclusive Integrated Circuit Provider for Space Industry

Duncan Pilgrim (left), vice president and general manger of Peregrine Semiconductor’s high performance analog business unit, and Brad Little (right), general manager of e2v. Photo: Peregrine Semiconductor.

[Via Satellite 02-09-2016] Peregrine Semiconductor and e2v have reached a strategic reseller agreement whereby e2v will be the sole provider of Peregrine’s Integrated Circuits (ICs) for the worldwide space market. With this agreement, e2v’s product offering spans the signal chain from RF to back-end, including data converters, memory and high-performance data processing.

E2v offers more than 3,600 Qualified Manufacturers List (QML)-approved products. Peregrine is an MIL-PRF-38535 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.

“This strategic agreement leverages the technology strengths of both companies and will provide our customers with a complete data-processing solution,” said Brad Little, general manager of e2v.