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Space

Xilinx Offers High Bandwidth, High Throughput Support for Interplanetary Applications

Overview

Building on 20+ Years of Heritage

 

On-board Processing & On-orbit Reconfiguration

OBP has the potential to bring video on-demand, capacity growth and convergence of ground and space networks. Protocols and applications can change rapidly and to keep up with the ever changing needs there is only one possible solution – a true on-orbit reconfiguration with Xilinx FPGAs.

Space market trends enabled by Xilinx solutions:

  • Digital Processed Systems and Payloads
  • High Resolution Optical and Radar Imagery
  • Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence
  • Science Mission Display Modules and Video

Qualified parts available right away

Xilinx rad-hard and rad-tolerant reconfigurable FPGAs give designers robust, qualified devices that can meet the performance, reliability, and lifecycle demands of space. Supported by Xilinx targeted design platforms, these programmable solutions deliver the Xilinx trademark value when comparted to traditional implementations:

  • Shorter design times
  • Lower costs
  • Greater flexibility

Mitigating space radiation effects

Xilinx space grade products are built, tested, characterized, and specified to have a known performance in a space radiation environment. Xilinx offers TMR technology and an architecture designed to mitigate effects caused by radiation.

World-class software development tools

Whether you're a hardware designer, embedded system engineer, or a machine learning developer, Xililnx offers software tools to facilitate your space designs. Learn more about Vivado, and Vitis AI pages to determine which development tool is best for you.

Applications

Adoption in a Broad Set of Space Applications

Navigation satellite orbiting the earth

Navigation

Xilinx’s solution with unlimited reprogramming cycles allows increased lifetimes far beyond 10 years for system navigation satellites that provides autonomous geo-spatial positioning.  Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receivers require high speed processing which can be enabled by high compute SRAM FPGAs.

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New Space

The commercialization of space has led to a wealth of new opportunities. Xilinx offers scalable solutions to cover all New Space applications. The ability to deliver qualified, off-the-shelf devices to maximize time-to-market, makes Xilinx the perfect choice for New Space designs.

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A satellite performing digitalization of data and beamforming in orbit

Communication

Xilinx-powered transponders provide the highest reliability with maximized performance. The On-Board Processing capability of Space-Grade FPGAs simplifies the ground station signal handling by performing digitalization of data and beamforming in orbit.

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Earth Observation

Increasing need of Earth Observation satellites to process high resolution optical images or radar sensory data can be resolved with Xilinx’s highly adaptive compute FPGAs.  Onboard image compressions real time preprocessing require high number of DSPs.

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Earth Observation satellites to process high resolution optical images

Deep space Mars rover

Deep Space

With a strong heritage in Deep Space adoption, Xilinx continues to deliver the most-capable technology for applications beyond Earth’s orbit. Take advantage of Xilinx’s technology, IP, and partner ecosystem to maximize your innovation.

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Radiation

Radiation Defense Across All Orbits and Beyond


Xilinx radiation-hardened (RH) and radiation-tolerant (RT), reconfigurable FPGAs give designers robust, qualified devices that can meet the performance, reliability, and lifecycle demands of space. Xilinx performs and reports extensive single-event upset (SEU) characterization. All test methods, results and conclusions are completed in accordance with industry and government standards with the collaboration of our customers and the scientific communities. Extensive single-event upset (SEU) characterization is performed and reported by the Xilinx Radiation Test Consortium (XRTC). Visit the XRTC wiki for latest information. Visit the space lounge for detailed radiation reports.


Device-Specific Radiation Data


The RT Kintex UltraScale device uses more than 40 proprietary, patented circuit design and layout techniques to reduce the SEU cross-section. The table below lists radiation characteristics for the RT Kintex UltraScale.

Symbol Description Min Typ Max Units
TID Total Ionized Dose (GEO) - 100 120 Kard (Si)
SEL Single-Event-Latch-Up Immunity - 80 - MeV-cm2/mg
SEUCRAM Single-Event Upset in Configuration RAM (GEO) - 1.0e-8 - Upset/bit/day
SEUBRAM Single-Event Upset in Block RAM (GEO) - 8.5e-9 - Upset/bit/day
SEFICRAM Single Event Functional Interrupt Orbital Upset Frequency – Configuration RAM (GEO) - 4.5e-4 - Upset/device/day

The RH Virtex-5QV FPGAs are guaranteed for total ionizing dose (TID) life and single-event latch-up (SEL) immunity. The table below lists the radiation tolerances for the Virtex-5QV devices.

Symbol Description Min Typ Max Units
TID Total Ionized Dose 1 - - Mrad (Si)
SEL Single-Event-Latch-Up Immunity 100 - - MeV-cm2/mg
SEFI Single Event Functional Interrupt (GEO) - 2.76e-7 - Upset/device/day
SEUCFG Single-Event Upset in Configuration Memory (GEO) - 3.8e-10 - Upset/bit/day

RT Virtex-4QV FPGAs are guaranteed for total ionizing dose (TID) life and single-event latch-up (SEL) immunity. The following table lists the radiation tolerance data for the Virtex-4QV devices.

Symbol Description Min Typ Max Units
TID Total Ionized Dose 300 - - Krad (Si)
SEL Single-Event-Latch-Up Immunity 100 - - MeV-cm2/mg
SEFI Single Event Functional Interrupt (GEO) - 1.5e-6 - Upset/device/day
Products

Develop on Xilinx’s Space-Grade technology


 

RT Kintex UltraScale FPGA

RT Kintex UltraScale FPGA (20nm)

The industry’s first 20nm FPGA for Space Applications. Leverage UltraScale’s innovative design for SEU Mitigation.

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Virtex-5QV FPGA (65nm)

The high performance rad-hard reconfigurable FPGA with strong heritage since 2011.

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Virtex-5QV FPGA (65nm)

Virtex-4QV FPGA (90nm)

Virtex-4QV FPGA (90nm)

Radiation tolerant FPGAs that deliver exceptional levels of integration and performance offering a compelling alternative to ASIC and other one-time programmable technologies.

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