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News Release from: Actel Europe | Subject: RTAX4000S FPGA
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 29 January 2008
FPGA survives outer space conditions
MIL-STD 883 Class B qualification opens high-bandwidth processing applications in spacecraft payloads for the RTAX4000S FPGA.
Actel has completed the MIL-STD 883 Class B qualification of its four-million gate radiation-tolerant RTAX-S field-programmable gate array (FPGA) The qualification of the RTAX4000S, combined with its usable error-corrected on-board memory and large number of user I/O, make it suitable for high-bandwidth processing applications in spacecraft payloads
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 23 Apr 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Ken O'Neill, Director of Marketing, Military and Aerospace at Actel said "We are testing and qualifying these parts to the most stringent standards from 883 Class B to QML Class V, assuring our customers that these programmable solutions can withstand even the most extreme conditions in space".
Hardened by design against radiation single-event upsets (SEUs), the nonvolatile RTAX4000S requires no radiation mitigation techniques.
Competing high-density FPGA solutions require triple module redundancy (TMR), which can consume more than two thirds of the device's available logic.
The RTAX4000S offers the inherent flexibility of the programmable fabric, delivering cost and time to market advantages over radiation-hardened (RH)-ASICs with their long lead times and high up-front tooling charges that, in combination with minimal volume requirements for many space applications, often translate to higher total solution costs.
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