Mark Moffat

Peregrine Semiconductor Europe

Managing Director

EuMW Space and Defense

Peregrine: Solving the World’s Toughest RF Challenges

Peregrine Semiconductor Proprietary 2

Fabless semiconductor company

• Pioneered use of CMOS SOI for RF

• Performance on par with GaAs, with all the

benefits of CMOS

• Perfected technology over 25 years

Serving multiple end-markets

• Leading innovator in the mobile handset space

• Bringing RF innovation to aerospace,

automotive test & measurement and other

industrial markets

• Initial Public Offering August 2012

• Headquarters in San Diego, CA

• 300+ employees

Mobile

High Performance

Analog (HPA)

Intellectual

Property Rights

Company Overview: Driving the RF SOI Revolution

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Global 1

Snapshot: EuMW Space & Defense 2012

Peregrine Semiconductor Proprietary 4

Expanding Opportunities for RADAR: Even since 2012

Peregrine Semiconductor Proprietary 5

Ground Weather Radar

Military SAR Radar Space X Band

SAR – Earth Observation

Commercial Airborne Radar

Storm Tracking

Existing

NEXRAD

Proposed CASA

RADAR

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Production Release Year

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Why mmwave on UltraCMOS® Technology

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Gate Bulk

Source

Drain

The small signal model is simplified with the

removal of the shaded elements associated

with the bulk node.

UltraCMOS®• Insulating

substrate

• CMOS Digital,

Analog, RF

• Logic functions

• High yielding

• High ESD rating

• Processed in

multiple fabs

• High Q insulating substrate

• Allows RF Integration

• High Q passives (L/C)

• Lange Couplers

• Wilkinson Combiners

• RF Hybrids

UltraCMOS® Linearity

UltraCMOS® Technology UltraCMOS® Integration

Standard

CMOS

UltraCMOS®

Results in High Linearity

Microwave blocks

Frequency (GHz)

( phase S21-phase S31 ) deg

Example of Microwave Distributed Structures

• Lange Physical Length = 1600 um

• Line width = 7 um, Line separation = 9 um

• EM Simulated over DC to 100 GHz

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P1

P3

P4

P2

Frequency (GHz)

Magnitude Balance

dB(S21)

dB(S31)

Frequency (GHz)

Return Loss

dB(S33)

dB(S22)

dB(S11)

Integration of Microwave Elements

• Integration of high performance coupler structures

relies on a low loss substrate

• UltraCMOS loss tan is < 0.00014 @ 19 GHz

- Better than Alumina at 0.0012

• Capability can be used in other distributed circuits

• Wilkinson power dividers

• Broad band baluns

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7um W&S

PE82670 – Introducing the first Peregrine core-chip

Peregrine Semiconductor Proprietary 9

Part #RF Freq

(GHz)

DSA

Bits

Phase

Shift bits

Insertion

loss (dB)

Isolation

(dB)Package

Export

Status

Release

Status

PE82670 9.0-10.1 6 6/10 14 50 Bare die UKAS – Feb 15

FP – Jul 15

Die on Test Board

Monolithic solution

Built on UltraCMOS ®

Silicon-on-sapphire

technology

Accurate

Reliable

Repeatable

performance, chip to

chip, lot to lot, for the

lifetime of your product

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Current Performance – Phase range

Peregrine Semiconductor Proprietary 10

Phase and amplitude adjustment

Peregrine Semiconductor Proprietary 11

PHASE ADJUSTMENT ON LINEAR SCALE

- 10.6 GHZ (+90 DEG FOR CLARITY)

- 9.6 GHZ

- 8.6 GHZ (-90 DEG FOR CLARITY)

AMPLITUDE ADJUSTMENT (DB)

Isolation –Key Performance Parameter

Peregrine Semiconductor Proprietary 12

TX_IN TO RX_OUT ISOLATION

BLUE TRACE – SIMULATED PCB

RED TRACE – MEASURED PCB

LOWER TRACES – DE-EMBEDDED DIE

PERFORMANCE

In Summary

Peregrine Semiconductor Proprietary 13

• Peregrine discussed these concepts back in 2012

• Since 2012, we have developed fundamental MMIC design capabilities

• Successfully developed an X-Band core chip

• Implemented multiple functions on a single die

• MMIC design elements: Lange Coupler

• RF design elements: Tx/Rx switches

• Analog Design elements: Voltage regulation

• Digital elements: Control interface

• Performance that matches or exceeds that of existing solutions

• Peregrine has now shown that UltraCMOS® technology is a viable

solution for integrated high-frequency products

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