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  • Radiation hardened ARM that doesn’t cost an ARM and a LEG

    I recently attended the NASA Electronic Parts & Packaging (NEPP) workshop followed by the Nuclear Space & Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC) and it became apparent to me that there are broadly two categories of electronic components that are most widely…

  • SmallSat Electronics Ecosystem Expands with new Arm Cortex-based Reference Design

    Last week I attended the SmallSat symposium in Mountain View. This is the first of around half a dozen Small Satellite conferences that I’ll attend in 2018. That sounds like a lot of small satellite conferences, but there are actually many more that I…

    • http://smallformfactors.mil-embedded.com/articles/designing-rad-hard-cubesat-onboard-computer/
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  • Taking Steps to Ensure Security of Supply

    One of the reasons that the Arm architecture is so popular is that it addresses customers concerns about security of supply. In the event that an Arm-based chip is no longer available to buy, the legacy software that was developed for it can be ported…

  • Rad-hard Arm-Cortex MCU Increases Likelihood of CubeSat Success

    CubeSats are miniaturized satellites in a 10cm cube form-factor that are becoming enormously popular due to the benefits of standardization. The standards were originally driven by academia but have now been widely adopted for commercial and government…

    • RH-OBC-1_Flyer_rev_0.3.pdf

  • Just one word...Plastics

    Electronics packaging technology has moved on a bit since that classic line about ‘plastics’ was delivered in The Graduate movie, 50 years ago. Plastic packages are now capable of operating comfortably at 200˚C and there is a now a willingness from some…

    • http://www.voragotech.com/products/VA10820
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  • ARM Cortex-M0 MCU set to Conquer Space

    It was a thrill for us that a VORAGO Technologies ARM Cortex-M0 microcontroller was part of the payload that was rocketed to the International Space Station on the SpaceX Falcon 9 this week.

    Space electronics technology has not kept up the pace of innovation…

  • Arm and VORAGO Technologies take space electronics to new heights

    Today, the SpaceX CRS-10 cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) blasted off containing a critical piece of experimental electronics. Why is this big news? Because the experiment is controlled by an Arm-based VORAGO Technologies…

  • Beware ! All Error Correcting Code Memory Systems are not Created Equally !

    Space radiation can cause different types of problems in an IC that are manifested as latch-up or Single Event Upsets (SEU). Latch-up can be immunized against by hardening the chip with a process enhancement, but addressing SEUs depends on the type of…

  • ARM Cortex-M0 stretches the limits of high temperature operation

    A few weeks ago VORAGO Technologies issued a press release to announce that our VA10800 microcontroller had just surpassed 4000 hours of successful operation at 200C. The level of interest that we have received has been incredible. Clearly there are…

    • VORAGO-Exceeds-4000-hours-at-200C-FINAL.pdf