Microsemi, eInfochips collaborate for aerospace design services

Semiconductor solutions provider Microsemi Corporation and eInfochips on Wednesday announced their collaboration to provide DO-254 compliant design services for the aerospace industry, a statement issued by the companies said.

“Many of our aerospace customers are looking for ways to accelerate their product design. They seek reliable partners to supplement their expertise,” said Ken O’Neill, director of marketing, space and aviation, at Microsemi.

“Through our relationship with eInfochips, customers can access proven DO-254 design experience for advanced, high performance, avionics systems using highly reliable, low power FPGAs,” O’Neill added.

A formal avionics standard, DO-254 provides guidance for design assurance of airborne electronic hardware. It provides certification information from project conception, planning, design, implementation, testing, and validation, including DO-254 tool qualification considerations. A market outlook reports from Airbus and Boeing stated that approximately 1,400–1,800 new commercial airplanes will be manufactured each year between 2013 and 2032.

The next generation of avionics products aims to improve safety, speed and connectivity for aircraft platforms and the collaboration of Microsemi and eInfochips, the statement said, will have a positive impact on this transition as part of the global engineering community that designs advanced aerospace systems for critical and non-critical applications.

Designs of eInfochips, an engineering research and development services company, are already deployed on many leading global commercial and military aircraft. The company offers expertise on DO-254, DO-178B and DO-160 for product design, re-engineering and sustenance services. The company, as per the statement, has hands-on experience with critical products like flight control systems, multi-function displays, navigation systems, among others.