Microchip Technology (NASDAQ: MCHP) shares strengthened Thursday, as the firm announces the space-grade DSA504RT, a radiation-tolerant, six-output programmable clock generator designed to address the complex timing needs of aerospace and defense applications.
Spacecraft timing systems must provide highly stable, precise signals for navigation, communications and scientific instruments, even when GNSS signals are weak or unavailable. Designers often rely on multiple oscillators and buffers to supply precise frequencies to various subsystems, adding size, mass and complexity.
The DSA504RT streamlines timing architecture by generating multiple clean, phase-aligned frequencies from a single master source.
Additionally, this solution reduces the need for multiple discrete oscillators, lowers overall component count and improves system failure in time (FIT) rate. It also reduces power consumption and mass, as well as simplify distribution networks to keep all subsystems synchronized even in the harshest environments and during GNSS outages or disruptions.
Equipped with an Analog Phase-Locked Loop (APLL) featuring spread spectrum capability, two fractional and two integer dividers, and six highly configurable output buffers, each of which can be configured as a differential driver (LVPECL, LVDS or HCSL) or as a pair of single-ended CMOS outputs, the DSA504RT delivers ultra-low jitter performance as low as 200 femtoseconds (12kHz–20MHz) and is compliant with PCIe® Gen 1-7 standards.
This level of integration allows engineers to replace multiple crystals, oscillators and buffers with a single device, improving design reliability, reducing Bill of Materials cost and design complexity.
MCHP shares jumped $1.51, or 1.6%, to $93.99
