Aeroflex Colorado Springs' New 3-Volt 1553 Transceiver in Production

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO ¨C Aeroflex Colorado Springs, (NASDAQ:ARXX), announces production of a low-power 3-volt MIL-STD-1553 transceiver. Based on Aeroflex¡¯s legacy 5-volt transceivers, the UT63M143 3-volt transceiver is ideal for avionic and aerospace applications and is fit and functionally compatible to industry standard transceivers.

¡°Customers have been requesting a drop-in compatible, industry standard 3-volt transceiver to aid in their avionic and aerospace design for some time,¡± said Anthony Jordan, Director-Standard Products. ¡°Customers now have a 3-volt or a 5-volt transceiver to chose from that is drop-in compatible with Aeroflex¡¯s standard 24- lead flatpack or 36-pin DIP packages. The 3-volt transceiver is also compatible with our S¦ÌMMIT databus.¡±

The UT63M143 is built on Aeroflex¡¯s UT0.6¦Ìm CMOS technology, operates at -55oC to +125oC and is QML Q and V compliant. The 3-volt transceiver is available with total ionizing dose hardness from 300 krads(Si) up to 1 Mrad(Si) and SEL and SEU immune to 109MeV-cm2/mg.

The UT63M143 is $623.00 in QML Q lots of 100. Prototypes and production units are available now. It has been assigned Standard Microcircuit Drawing (SMD) 5962-07242.

Aeroflex Colorado Springs, is a supplier of semicustom and standard VLSI circuits and custom circuit card assemblies. Aeroflex, Colorado Springs has received Qualified Manufacturer List (QML) certification for Class Q, Class T and Class V. Additionally, we have received a letter of compliance for ISO 9001 from the Defense Supply Center Columbus.