IDEAS (Integrated Detector Electronics AS)

Integrated Detector Electronics AS (IDEAS) is a Norwegian microelectronics company headquartered in Oslo, specializing in custom radiation-hardened Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) and front-end electronics for particle physics and space science detector systems. IDEAS develops readout ASICs for X-ray detectors, gamma-ray detectors, charged particle trackers, and nuclear imaging instruments used in space science missions at ESA, NASA, and in particle physics experiments at CERN. The company's radiation-tolerant ASICs are used in space science instruments aboard satellites including XMM-Newton, INTEGRAL, Mars Express, and multiple ESA science missions. IDEAS is a niche but globally recognized supplier of space-grade custom detector electronics within the European space scientific instrumentation supply chain.