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News Release from: Gaisler Research
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 24 June 2005
Floating point unit set for space ASIC
A licence agreement has been signed for the use of the Gaisler Research Floating Point Unit (GRFPU) in the Cole ASIC developed by Saab Ericsson Space.
A licence agreement has been signed for the use of the Gaisler Research Floating Point Unit (GRFPU) in the Cole ASIC developed by Saab Ericsson Space The Cole ASIC will merge the Leon2-FT SPARC processor with all bus interface support needed to implement spacecraft processing and control and to control mass memories or payloads
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 13 Sep 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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The GRFPU will be used to increase the calculating performance in the Cole ASIC.
The licence agreement represents yet another example where the GRFPU is used in complex system on a chip designs.
"The combination of the Leon processor and the powerful GRFPU gives the performance required by high end spacecraft applications", says Jiri Gaisler the CTO of Gaisler Research.
The GRFPU is fully IEEE754 compliant and implements both single and double precision floating point operations.
The GRFPU is available in a commercial version and in a fault tolerant version for space, military and critical applications.
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