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Achieve space-grade certification faster with our radiation-hardened, high reliability analog and embedded processing products and resources

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Engineering the next frontier
Building on 60 years in the space market, our radiation-hardened products and systems expertise help you meet your mission-critical design requirements to operate in space for decades to come.

Why choose TI for your space design?

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Longevity and supply assurance

Meet your mission-critical supply requirements for high reliability products for decades to come.

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Product availability

Our large inventory of space-grade products is immediately available for purchase on TI.com, including date and lot code options.

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Deliver continuous innovation

Our growing portfolio of QML Class V-, Class Y- and Class P- qualified and Space-EP products and resources address your complex design challenges to perform in the harshest environment of space.

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Accelerate your design

Our expertise and detailed documentation in radiation testing and system design provide you the fastest path to go from concept to production.

Engineering the next frontier

Our radiation-hardened power management products are optimized to help you meet size, weight, power and cost (SWaP-C) requirements, and achieve the highest levels of power density and efficiency while operating in space for decades to come. Our DC/DC controllers, step-down converters, linear regulators, load switches and voltage references help you to meet all of your most demanding power requirements.

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T-60: Space-grade design
Everything you need to know about designing for space applications, from general terminology to details on design specifications.
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Alpha Data® board for Xilinx® Kintex® UltraScale™ XQRKU060 FPGA with TI power
Get started with this development kit for the Xilinx® XQRKU060 FPGA with industrial -1 speed grade.
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TPS7H4001 evaluation module for four-channel, 72-A, synchronous step-down converter
The TPS7H4001QEVM-CVAL evaluation module demonstrates how four TPS7H4001-SP buck converters can be configured to provide a regulated power rail capable of load current up to 72 A to support typical ASIC and FPGA applications.
Featured products for power
TPS7H4003-SEP ACTIVE Radiation-tolerant, 3-V to 7-V, 18-A, synchronous step-down converter in space-enhanced plastic
NEW TPS7H2221-SEP ACTIVE Radiation-tolerant 1.6-V to 5.5-V input 1.25-A load switch
NEW TPS7H5005-SEP ACTIVE Radiation-tolerant, 2-MHz, dual-output PWM controller with synchronous rectification

More data throughput

Our advanced high-speed data converters, RF amplifiers and clock and timing products in space-grade plastic packages help you deliver the highest possible bandwidth with the smallest space and weight. TI's innovative data converters and analog front-end designs allow you to design systems that support multiple communication channels with higher throughput in smaller spaces, while enabling advanced radar, optical imaging and communications applications.

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JESD204 Rapid Design IP for FPGAs connected to TI high-speed data converters
Download our JESD204 rapid design IP designed to enable FPGA engineers to accelerate time to market and minimize development costs.
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Ready to make the jump to JESD204B? White Paper (Rev. B)
This paper examines the system implications around the JESD204B interface and helps you determine if you are ready to make the switch.
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Featured products for high bandwidth
ADC12DJ3200QML-SP ACTIVE Radiation-hardness-assured (RHA), QMLV, 300-krad, 12-bit, dual 3.2-GSPS or single 6.4-GSPS ADC
LMK04832-SP ACTIVE Radiation-hardened-assured (RHA), ultra-low-noise, 3.2-GHz, 15-output clock jitter cleaner
LMX2615-SP ACTIVE Space grade 40-MHz to 15-GHz wideband synthesizer with phase synchronization and JESD204B support

Accuracy for sophisticated instruments

From space-grade operational amplifiers to precision data converters, our latest precision technologies deliver the highest accuracy and integration for sophisticated instrumentation and precise telemetry of various voltage, current, and temperature measurements throughout your system. 

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Analog Front-End Design With Texas Instruments’ Tooling Landscape
This application note describes how to get started quickly and how our products and tools assist you to tune the design effectively with the help of a concrete design example.
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ADS1282-SP radiation-tolerant evaluation module
Get started with this compact evaluation kit for evaluating the ADS1282-SP, a radiation-tolerant, extremely high-performance, dual-channel ADC.
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Versatile satellite health monitoring and control platform reference design with < 1% accuracy
A highly modular design for radiation-hardened satellite telemetry systems that utilizes the versatility of LMP7704-SP to accurately monitor temperature, voltage and current to provide feedback to the host board.
Featured products for precision
NEW ADC128S102-SEP ACTIVE Radiation-tolerant, eight-channel, 50-kSPS to 1-MSPS, 12-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC)

NEW OPA4H014-SEP ACTIVE Radiation-tolerant, 11-MHz, low-noise, precision rail-to-rail output JFET amplifier
INA240-SEP ACTIVE -4 to 80V, ultra-precise current sense amplifier w/ enhanced pwm rejection in space enhanced plastic

Design & development resources

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Versatile satellite health monitoring and control platform reference design with < 1% accuracy
This reference design features a highly modular design for radiation-hardened satellite telemetry systems that utilizes the versatility of LMP7704-SP to accurately monitor temperature, voltage and current to provide feedback to the host board. It also provides controlled analog outputs to provide (...)
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3- to 7-VIN, 24-A IOUT, 0.95-VOUT, Space-grade current sharing point-of-load (POL) reference design

This is a 24-A DC/DC space power hardware reference design.

As FPGA and ASIC technology advances, the core voltage requirements get lower but the current demand is larger. The newest space grade FPGAs and ASICS require low voltage and high currents for their core power consumption. These high (...)

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20- to 40-VIN, 50-W Space-grade isolated flyback DC/DC over-current protection reference design
Spacecraft bus voltages vary from the well-established 28-V to more than the 100-V typically used in highpower commercial communications satellites, this reference design shows an example for a space-grade 50-W isolated intermediary bus converter, while implementing over-current protection (OCP) (...)

Reference designs related to Space

Use our reference design selection tool to find designs that best match your application and parameters.

Featured products

PWM controllers TPS7H5001-SP ACTIVE Radiation-hardened QMLV, 2-MHz, dual-output PWM controller with synchronous rectification
Buck converters (integrated switch) TPS7H4001-SP ACTIVE Radiation-hardness-assured (RHA), 3-V to 7-V input, 18-A, synchronous step-down converter
High-speed ADCs (≥10 MSPS) ADC12DJ3200QML-SP ACTIVE Radiation-hardness-assured (RHA), QMLV, 300-krad, 12-bit, dual 3.2-GSPS or single 6.4-GSPS ADC
RF PLLs & synthesizers LMX2615-SP ACTIVE Space grade 40-MHz to 15-GHz wideband synthesizer with phase synchronization and JESD204B support
Precision op amps (Vos<1mV) LMP7704-SP ACTIVE Radiation-hardness-assured (RHA), precision low-input-bias wide-supply-range amplifier with RRIO
Precision ADCs (<=10MSPS) ADS1278-SP ACTIVE Radiation Hardened 24-Bit 8-Ch Simultaneous-Sampling Delta-Sigma ADC
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Technical resources

Selection guide
Selection guide
TI Space Products (Rev. I)
QMLV space-grade and radiation-tolerant products to help innovate your space designs.
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Technical article
Technical article
Space Enhanced Plastic for emerging low-Earth orbit commercial applications
Learn more about our Space Enhanced Plastic (Space EP) portfolio of products, in addition to its current portfolio of more than 250 Qualified Manufacturers List Class V (QMLV) hermetic-space-grade devices.
E-book
E-book
Radiation Handbook for Electronics (Rev. A)
Ready to unlock decades of expert insight? Find a compendium of radiation effects topics for space, industrial and terrestrial applications.
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