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About our Company
Overview
Peregrine Semiconductor is a supplier of the industry's most advanced RF and mixed-signal communications ICs which are ideally suited for the wireless infrastructure and mobile wireless; broadband CATV/DTV; communications infrastructure; and high-reliability markets. Manufactured on the Company’s proprietary UltraCMOS™ mixed-signal process technology, Peregrine products are uniquely poised to meet the needs of a global RF design community in high-growth applications such as WCDMA, EDGE and GSM digital cellular and mobile TV; broadband communications such as DTV/PCTV/DVR and telecom infrastructure; and in high-reliability applications such as industrial, automotive, military and satellite systems. Peregrine’s products feature monolithic integration and ease-of-development, which are essential to timely and cost-effective application design by our customers. Peregrine UltraCMOS devices are manufactured through strategic relationships with world-class CMOS foundries located in Australia, Asia and Japan. The Company, headquartered in San Diego, California, maintains global sales support operations and a worldwide technical distribution network.
Market focus
Today’s
highly mobile society has created a market demand for high-performance,
cost-effective RF capability.
From GSM
cellular handsets, CDMA digital cellular and RIM devices, to CATV/DTV/DVR and
other high-growth wireless broadband applications, engineers in the RF market
space push to develop more efficient, less costly designs.As well, space and
defense programs including
satellites with rad-hard requirements, have become paramount to the safety and
security of all nations. As these designs evolve, so too does the RF signal
chain, which has long been seen as one of the more complex parts of the
design…until now.
Peregrine’s
unique, patented UltraCMOS™ silicon-on-sapphire process technology allows us to
design and manufacture products for the mobile wireless and wireless
infrastructure; broadband communications; space, defense and avionics markets
with a level of RF performance that is unmatched in the industry.
UltraCMOS™ Technology
UltraCMOS™ mixed signal
process technology is a proprietary, patented variation of silicon on-insulator
(SOI) technology. It is the first commercially qualified use of Ultra
Thin-Silicon (UTSi®) on sapphire substrates with high yields and
competitive costs.
The greatest asset of the
UltraCMOS process lies in its unprecedented ability to combine
high-performance RF, mixed signal, passive elements, nonvolatile memory and
digital functions on a single chip. Customers have validated the cost and
performance advantage of UltraCMOS over competing mixed signal
processes--GaAs, SiGe and bulk silicon CMOS--in applications where RF
performance, low power, and integration are paramount. In addition, because
UltraCMOS products are fabricated in a standard high volume CMOS wafer
fabrication facility, our products and our customers benefit from the
fundamental cost effectiveness and high yields, scalability and integration of
CMOS, while achieving the performance of SiGe and
GaAs. In addition, since sapphire is a near perfect
insulator, UltraCMOS-based products can integrate high quality passive
devices directly into the ICs, offering unprecedented levels of RF integration
and cost effectiveness.
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Products
Since its inception,
Peregrine Semiconductor has focused its engineering resources on designing RF
ICs which deliver best-in-class performance from antenna in to data out. The Peregrine UltraCMOS product portfolio
achieves new milestones in monolithic integration, linearity, ultra-low power
consumption and value, and showcases CMOS achievements including cellular
handset switches and 13 GHz rad-hard prescalers.
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