Technology For The Edge

2 min readApogee Semiconductor proudly announces the ARPS1020A5 and ARPS1050A5, a radiation-hardened power switch family engineered to bring deterministic protection, fault containment, and continuous health telemetry to spacecraft and other mission-critical power architectures. With two optimized variants, the ARPS power switch family cleanly spans key spacecraft rails.

2 min readPlano, Texas — October 21, 2025 — Apogee Semiconductor today announced that its AxIO16 Radiation Hardened I/O Expander has been selected as a 2025 Platinum Honoree in the Technology Innovators Award program by Military + Aerospace Electronics magazine, the highest recognition for breakthrough technologies that advance aerospace, defense, and high‑reliability systems. The AxIO16 product family is designed to expand and conserve FPGA and processor digital I/O via I²C/SMBus/SPI interfaces and integrates level translation across 1.4 V to 5.5 V rails, enabling robust scalable control architectures. The APIO16 is designed for LEO class environments with 30 krad (Si) resilience while the AFIO16 is ideal for GEO environments with 300 krad(Si) resilience.  Both devices use the same 28 pin TSSOP footprint to simplify upgrades between LEO and GEO platforms.

2 min readPlano, Texas — October 4, 2025 — Apogee Semiconductor today announced the APIO16/AFIO16 radiation hardened 16bit I/O expander family is flight qualified, giving system integrators the flexibility to align reliability goals, budgets, and schedules with their mission requirements. The family expands digital I/O via I²C/SMBus/SPI interfaces and integrates level translation across 1.4 V to 5.5 V rails, enabling robust, scalable control architectures while conserving FPGA and processor resources. The APIO16 targets LEO missions with 30 krad (Si) total dose resilience, while the AFIO16 extends the family to GEO class environments with 300 krad (Si) resilience using the same 28pin TSSOP footprint to simplify upgrades.