IDEAS (Integrated Detector Electronics AS)

Updated 24 Jul 2026
Manufacturer Norway Listed
17 Products
34 Years Active
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About IDEAS (Integrated Detector Electronics AS)

IDEAS is a Norwegian fabless semiconductor company founded in 1992 by scientists and engineers from CERN and the University of Oslo, specializing in custom application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) for the readout of radiation detectors and image sensors. The company designs low-noise, radiation-tolerant/rad-hard ICs, radiation detection modules, and infrared imaging front-end electronics for space, scientific, medical, industrial, and defense applications. IDEAS has contributed to over 25 space missions in partnership with agencies including ESA, NASA, and JAXA, with flight heritage dating back to NASA's AMS-1 mission (1997) and the SWIFT satellite (2004). The company positions itself as 100% European design, with over 30 years of applied-physics and detector-instrumentation expertise.

Milestones

  • 1992 Founded in Oslo by scientists/engineers from CERN and University of Oslo
  • 2026 NORM Space Radiation Monitor flying on Space Norway's ASBM mission
  • 2026 Joined SPIRIT, EUR 39M European Defence Fund infrared sensor program

Products

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The CA3 is an ASIC with 32/64-channels for energy resolved single-photon counting optimized for CZT/CdTe detectors.

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The IDE1140 (previously VA140) is a 64 channel low-noise/low power high dynamic range charge sensitive preamplifier-shaper circuit, with simultaneous sample and hold, multiplexed analogue readout, cal

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The IDE1180 is an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), which has been designed for the front-end readout of multi-channel plates (MCPs).

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The IDE3160 (previously VATA160) is an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), which has been designed for the front-end readout of photomultiplier tubes coupled to scintillators.

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The IDE3380 is an integrated circuit (IC) for the readout of photon detectors, such as photomultiplier tubes (PMTs), silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs), and multi-pixel photon counters (MPPCs).

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IDE3381 APOCAT – ROIC for high-rate, high-resolution x-ray and gamma-rayspectroscopy with scintillators and PMTs or SiPMs, operating in space and for solar missions.

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20-channel charge sensitive preamplifier-shaper circuit with a total of 37 digital logic trigger outputs and one analog multiplexer output for pulse heights.

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The IDE3466 (also VATA466) is an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), which has been designed for the p-side readout of silicon detectors for charged particles.

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The IDE4184 is an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), which has been designed for the readout of CdTe/CZT radiation detectors.

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12-channel charge-sensitive preamplifier-shaper circuit with programmable peaking time from 0.75 µs to 4 µs and current compensation on each input.

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NIRCA MkII is an integrated circuit (ASIC) for reading out infrared focal plane arrays for Earth observation from space.

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32-channel and high dynamic range charge sensitive preamplifier-shaper circuit, with sample and hold, multiplexed analog readout and calibration facilities

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33-channel and high dynamic range charge sensitive preamplifier-shaper circuit, with sample and hold, multiplexed analog readout and calibration facilities.

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The VASCM3.2 is a 128 channel low-noise/low power current sensitive preamplifier-filter circuit, with two-channel alternating sample and hold.

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The VATA64HDR16.2 is a 64-channel charge sensitive amplifier for SiPM read-out.

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128-channel general-purpose charge-sensitive amplifier. Each channel features buffered preamplifiers, a shaper with sample/hold, multiplexed analogue readout and calibration facilities.

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The VATAGP8 is an integrated circuit that allows one to measure the charge from radiation sensors.

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