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News Release from: Aitech Defense Systems | Subject: S950
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 13 February 2008
cPCI board toughens up for space duties
The S950 offers extreme protection against single event upsets, making it ideal for a variety of low earth orbit, Mars terrestrial and geocentric orbit applications.
Aitech Defense Systems now offers a high-performance single-slot single board computer (SBC) that allows the user to initiate different power-saving options, depending on application requirements Specifically designed for mission-critical space environments, the new 3U CompactPCI radiation-tolerant S950 functions using as little as 13.5W in full operation, less than 8W in nap mode and less than 10W with limited performance for less intense processing requirements, all based on a core processor speed of 733MHz
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 20 May 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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The S950 offers extreme protection against single event upsets (SEUs) making it ideal for a variety of low earth orbit (LEO), Mars terrestrial and geocentric orbit (GEO) applications including redundant mission computers and guidance and navigation computers as well as in command and data handling computers, solid-state recorders and video controllers.
The board incorporates the low power PowerPC 750FX processor with a maximum power dissipation of less than 8W, 128Mbyte of SDRAM arranged in a bit-wise triple voting architecture and 1Mbyte of dual-redundant boot Flash to store the onboard Boot firmware.
The 32Kbyte L1 cache includes a parity check for both tags and data, while the 512Kbyte L2 cache provides a parity check on tags and ECC protection on data.
A rad-tolerant antifuse FPGA maintains the memory controller to ensure data integrity for secure system reliability in harsh space environments.
Also implemented on the FPGA is additional ECC protection for the board's 64Mbyte of user Flash memory, which ensures sufficient memory resources for a variety of applications, as well as two standard serial ports, four independent 32bit counters/timers, an onboard hardware watchdog timer, a 32bit conduction-cooled PMC site and a 32bit CompactPCI interface operating at 33.333MHz.
Pricing for the S950 starts at US $24,200.
Delivery is from stock to 16 weeks ARO.
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