Proven Spaceflight Processing Solutions for LEO, GEO and Deep Space
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) offers a broad range of single-board computers for avionics and for instrument control.
Spaceflight heritage
High-reliability, radiation-hardened spacecraft computing solutions
High-performance, reconfigurable processors for system control and digital signal processing
Scalable processing performance and power consumption to meet a wide spectrum of user applications
SwRI-built UVS controller card used on JUNO spacecraft
Powerful System-On-Chip for Superior Embedded Performance
High-Performance Single-Board Computer
PowerQUICC III family (MPC8548E)
Up to 1.5 GHz core speed
Up to 133 MHz local bus speed
3056 MIPS @133.3 MHz
cPCI Initiator/Target interface (33 MHz, 32 bit, 3.3. V)
IEEE 754 compliant floating point support
L1 cache: 32 k Instruction/32 k Data
L2 cache: 512 k with ECC support
4 DMA channels
Peripherals:
DDR/DDR2 SDRAM
I2C
10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet
Dual UARTs
RapidIO
High-performance single-board computer
Low-Power, High Performance for Small Spacecraft Applications
Centaur Single-Board Computer
Single-board computer combined with CCSDS uplink/downlink
GR712RC Dual Core LEON 3FT
Up to 200 DMIPS and 200 MFLOPS
4 Mbytes MRAM
4 MBytes SRAM
4 GBytes FLASH
128 MBytes SDRAM
Two SpW interfaces, 5 UARTs, GPIO
Extensive Proven CCSDS Uplink/Downlink Capability (NASA IMAGE, Deep Impact, Kepler, WISE, and other U.S. Government programs)
Extensive heritage with LEON architecture (JUNO, FERMI, Kepler, System F6)
Centaur single-board computer
SC-SPARC8 Spacecraft Controller
SPARC8 (AT697) CPU: 88 MIPs, 23 MFLOPS
Low power operation (< 1.5 W)
cPCI Interface
Fully compliant PICMG 2.0 R3.0 Initiator, Interrupt Handler, bus arbiter
Memory Interfaces (All EDAC protected)
128 KB PROM/512 KB EEPROM
4 MB SRAM
1.25 Gb SDRAM
Missions: NASA JUNO, Solar Orbiter, MMS
SC-SPARC8 spacecraft controller
Versatile Computing Resources for Advanced Applications
Communications Processor Software Defined Radio
UT699 LEON 3FT CPU
16 Mb (up to 256 Mb) MRAM
32 Mb EDAC protected SRAM
2 Gbits SDRAM
Two SpW interfaces, two UARTs
72 Mbits of QDRII+ memory
Xilinx V4SX55 or LX200 FPGA with scrubber
PROM boot image
FLASH on-orbit reconfigurable image
Two, 400 MSPS, 14 bit D/A
Two, 150 MSPS, 14 bit A/D
Communications processor software defined radio
Fault-Tolerant Spacecraft Controller
6U cPCI Form Factor, 32-bit, 33MHz
UT699 LEON-FT3 (SPARC v8)
cPCI initiator or target
128 KB EEPROM
64 MB SDRAM
8 MB MRAM (non-volatile storage)
Redundant (cross-strapped) serial interfaces
Ideally suited as primary spacecraft computer or fault tolerant backup flight computer
Fault-tolerant spacecraft controller
Or call Larry McDaniel at +1 210 522 4694.