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Harris Semiconductor Announces Expansion Of Its Military ASIC Business
MELBOURNE, FL, December 10, 1998 – Harris Semiconductor Space & Defense Products Business announced today it will expand its military and radiation-hardened (rad hard) Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) design business. Harris will partner with third party design centers to give customers access to custom circuits using a variety of Harris technologies.
MELBOURNE, FL, December 10, 1998 Harris Semiconductor Space & Defense Products Business announced today it will expand its military and radiation-hardened (rad hard) Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) design business. Harris will partner with third party design centers to give customers access to custom circuits using a variety of Harris technologies.
Customers will be able to prototype on production processes, run several projects simultaneously and have low volume opportunities support. They can choose a QML Class V, Q or T production path using Harris manufacturing processes and facilities.
"In todays Space and Defense marketplace, our customers desire custom ASIC capability on hi-reliability and rad hard processes," said Ray Odom, vice president and general manager of Harris Space and Defense Business. "Harris Space & Defense Business is aligned to service both the commercial/military space and defense marketplace, offering our customers a large breadth of technologies. We have formed a group devoted to ASICs and ASIC capabilities so that whether a customer wants one ASIC or a total solution, we can meet their needs."
When the customer chooses to use Harris for their ASIC design needs, they will capitalize on the use of Harris leadership in high reliability and rad hard technologies. The customer will be offered a wide variety of complimentary bipolar analog, CMOS digital & analog, linear CMOS and power BiMOS technologies. Initial ASICs will be offered using Harris 1.5M BiMOS HBC-10 and 2M analog bipolar UHF-1X processes.
Harris Semiconductor recently formed a design center partnership with Mission Research Corporation (MRC), headquartered in Santa Barbara, California. MRC is a high technology organization geared to specifically support government and industry customers in radiation effects research. As a Harris design center, MRC will design, debug and characterize customer ASIC solutions from initial concept to final specs for the prototype phase.
Harris Corporations Semiconductor sector manufactures discrete semiconductors and integrated circuits. Product development efforts are focused on innovative "next level solutions" for the communications and power markets. The companies portfolio of high value products serve many market segmentsautomotive, industrial, PC computing, wireless networking, signal processing, telecommunications, PC multimedia, consumer electronics, space and defense. The worldwide website is http://www.semi.harris.com.
Harris Corporation, with worldwide sales of more than $3.9 billion, is an international communications and electronics company that provides a wide range of products and services such as wireless and personal communications, digital television (HDTV), health care information, automotive electronics, transportation, business information, defense communications and information and Lanier office products.
