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…
- over 2 years ago
- System
- Embedded blog
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…
- over 2 years ago
- System
- Embedded blog
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…
- over 2 years ago
- System
- Embedded blog
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…
- over 3 years ago
- System
- Embedded blog
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…
- over 3 years ago
- Processors
- Processors blog