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
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
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
- Up to 200 DMIPS and 200 MFLOPS
- 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)
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
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
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
Or call Larry McDaniel at +1 210 522 4694.