April 6, 2012 - BUSINESS WIRE -- Chip maker ON Semiconductor (Nasdaq: ONNN) will develop a next-generation star tracker CMOS image sensor (CIS) with the European Space Agency (ESA). The sensor will be used in star trackers, sun sensors and other scientific applications. The High Accuracy Star Tracker 3 (HAS3) image sensor will expand the STAR family of radiation-tolerant CIS. ONNN and ESA plan to build a 1280 x 1280 pixel, 11 x 11µm2 pixel, 14bit device with low read noise. It will be fully hermetically packaged, with the option for back-side illumination (BSI). The HAS3 sensoe will support multiple windowing. ONNN’s existing HAS2 CIS, introduced in 2007, is designed for Attitude and Orbit Control (AOCS) space applications, developed and qualified under the General Support Technology Programme of the ESA. This generation is a 1024 x 1024 active pixel array (18 µm) and supports on-chip non-destructive readout and multiple windowing. In July 2011, the silicon supplier producing the HAS2 wafers for ON Semiconductor announced that they would be discontinuing manufacture of this product. ON Semiconductor followed industry Product Change Notification procedures and put its HAS2 image sensor on a “Last Time Buy Status.” Where applicable, special arrangements have been made with existing customers to minimize the impact of this status change, and ONNN secured ample product inventory to meet predicted full lifetime needs. The HAS3 will equip a new generation of APS Star Tracker. The HAS2 image sensor is “a key component in multi-million-dollar programs” with no current replacement, noted Vince Hopkin, vice president of Digital, Mil/Aero and CMOS Image Sensor Products at ON Semiconductor, but ONNN has secured “sufficient wafer inventory to cover both our existing order backlog and the potential future demand for these HAS2 products from Plessey.” ON Semiconductor (Nasdaq: ONNN) is a premier supplier of high performance silicon solutionsfor energy-efficient electronics. For more information, visit Learn more about the European Space Agency at Visit the Advanced Packaging Channel of Solid State Technology, and sign up for our Advanced Packaging News e-newsletter! . We are high quality suppliers, our products such as Electronic Price Computing Scale Manufacturer , China Digital Counting Scales for oversee buyer. To know more, please visits Electronic Jewelry Scale.
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