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Space

AMD 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 AMD FPGAs.

Space market trends enabled by AMD 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

AMD 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 AMD targeted design platforms, these programmable solutions deliver the AMD trademark value when comparted to traditional implementations:

  • Shorter design times
  • Lower costs
  • Greater flexibility

Mitigating space radiation effects

AMD space grade products are built, tested, characterized, and specified to have a known performance in a space radiation environment. AMD 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, AMD 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

Solution with unlimited reprogramming cycles from AMD 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/Space 2.0

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

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A satellite performing digitalization of data and beamforming in orbit

Communication

AMD-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 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, AMD continues to deliver the most-capable technology for applications beyond Earth’s orbit. Take advantage of technology, IP, and partner ecosystem from AMD to maximize your innovation.

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Radiation

Radiation Defense Across All Orbits and Beyond


AMD 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. AMD 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 AMD 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 Krad (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 Space-Grade technology from AMD

Next-gen XQR Space Devices for Space2.0 Applications

The next generation space portfolio of devices delivers full radiation tolerance, ultra-high throughput, machine learning capabilities and bandwidth performance for satellites and other space applications. The portfolio is targeted for on board processing payload applications with a dramatic increase in compute density for vector-based algorithms, system logic cells, on-board SRAM and multi-gigabit transceivers. The devices will offer a processing sub-system, hardened peripherals and a platform controller facilitating true unlimited on-orbit reconfiguration and SEU mitigation.

XQR Versal Product Brief
Space Lounge


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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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Ecosystem

Explore our Partner Solutions

Partner Solution Description Collateral
Alpha Data RT Kintex UltraScale Dev Kit (ADA-SDEV-KIT-2) Start prototyping today with a development Kit for the RT Kintex UltraScale FPGA.
Cobham FPGA Supervisor (GRSCRUB) Processor IPs Microcontroller (UT32M0R500) Non-Volatile Memory External configuration supervisor for FPGA programming & scrubbing NOEL-V and LEON-based processor IP with GRLIB for SoC development Rad-Tolerant 32-bit ARM® Cortex®-M0 Microcontroller 1GB RadHard NOR Flash
Infineon Memory Solutions Non-Volatile Memory Rad Tolerant 256M and 512M NOR Flash
Mentor, a Siemens Business Advanced FPGA Synthesis (Precision® Hi-Rel) Precision® Hi-Rel offers unique synthesis-based capabilities for single event effects (SEE) mitigation with unmatched user control.
Spacechips Space-Electronics Design Services On-Board Processing Products, Design Consultancy in Space Electronics, Technical Marketing, Training and Business-Intelligence Services
STAR-Dundee SpaceFibre Interface & Router IP SpaceWire Interface IP SpaceFibre IP is compatible with XQRKU060 using inbuilt transceiver blocks. SpaceWire interface VHDL IP blocks designed for use in FPGAs.
STMicroelectronics XQR KU060 Power Solution STMicroelectronics Collaborates with AMD to Power Radiation-Tolerant FPGAs using ST Space-Qualified Regulators
Teledyne e2v Quad Channel C-Band ADC (EV12AQ600) Space-Grade 6.4 GSps 12-bit Quad ADC interoperable with RT Kintex UltraScale FPGA.
Texas Instruments Power Solution (TPS7H4001-SP) ADC (ADC12DJ3200QML-SP) Space Power Solution for RT Kintex UltraScale FPGA. RF-sampling analog-to-digital converter for aerospace.
3D Plus DDR3 Memory Controller IP & Memory RIMC is a fully configurable DDR3 SDRAM Radiation Intelligent Memory Controller. Multiple DDR3 memory options ready for deployment.