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