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The purpose of this study was to characterize the effect of heavy-ion irradiation on the single-event effect (SEE) performance of the TRF0206-SP 6.5-GHz, Low Noise, Low Power, Fully-Differential Amplifier. Extensive SEE testing with heavy-ions having LET_EFF from 9.75 to 82.1 MeV-cm²/mg were conducted with heavy-ion fluences ranging from 10⁶ to 10⁷ ions/cm² per run. The SEE results demonstrated that the TRF0206-SP is SEL-free up to LET_EFF = 82.1 MeV-cm²/mg. Also the SET cross sections are discussed under static input conditions. CREME96-based worst-week event-rate calculations for LEO(ISS) and GEO orbits clearly demonstrate the robustness of the TRF0206-SP in two harshly conservative space environments.