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SiFive is fabless. Looks like they will be collaborating with Microchip on actual production. https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-awards-next-generation-sp
by jpm_sd 4y ago
SiFive is fabless. Looks like they will be collaborating with Microchip on actual production.
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-awards-next-generation-spaceflight-computing-processor-contract https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-awards-next-generati...
https://www.electronicdesign.com/technologies/embedded-revolution/article/21248869/electronic-design-microchip-lands-deal-to-develop-new-spaceflight-processor-for-nasa https://www.electronicdesign.com/technologies/embedded-revol...
- mzs 4y agoI see Microchip doing nothing but ARM in this space and only SiFive folks quoted in their PR: https://www.microchip.com/en-us/products/microcontrollers-and-microprocessors/32-bit-mpus https://www.microchip.com/en-us/products/microcontrollers-an...
- jpm_sd 4y agoThis lays it out more explicitly: https://www.eenewseurope.com/en/microchip-to-develop-next-generation-space-processor-for-nasa/ https://www.eenewseurope.com/en/microchip-to-develop-next-ge... "NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has selected Microchip to develop the High-Performance Spaceflight Computing (HPSC) processor that will provide at least 100 times the computational capacity of current spaceflight computers for all types of future space missions, from planetary exploration to lunar and Mars surface missions. The radiation hardened, fault tolerant processor will be based on 12 instantiations of the X280 RISC-V core from SiFive and will be used in a series of ruggedised radiation tolerant single board computers." Microsemi (acquired by Microchip) has built RISC-V hardware in the past: https://www.electronicdesign.com/technologies/iot/article/21808869/microchip-delivers-riscv-hardcore-fpga-socs https://www.electronicdesign.com/technologies/iot/article/21...
- mzs 4y agoThank you, that was the missing piece.
- elcritch 4y agoAnd now I want a 12 core radiation hardened SBC. Hopefully Microchip can sell these commercially. It'd be fun to see folks do steam punk themed rad hardened "cyberdeck" using one: https://hackaday.com/2022/09/04/2022-cyberdeck-contest-the-black-beast-will-help-you-survive-a-robot-apocalypse/ https://hackaday.com/2022/09/04/2022-cyberdeck-contest-the-b...
- jabl 4y agoI wonder if a rad-hardened SBC would be covered by ITAR like a lot of other space stuff? If so, would probably push the price and amount of paperwork out of reach of private individuals?
- snvzz 4y agoMicrochip is no stranger to RISC-V[0]. 0. https://www.microchip.com/en-us/about/news-releases/products/first-risc-v-based-system-on-chip-fpga-enters-mass-production https://www.microchip.com/en-us/about/news-releases/products...