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SpaceVPX
redundant
primary
Primary
Redundant
Another image from the NESC Interoperability Assessment features a notional redundant SpaceVPX system using a switched topology for data plane interconnect.
Note that although not illustrated in this figure, SpaceVPX supports a mesh topology. (Image: NESC)
that will make high-performance computing
more accessible for a broad range of
space applications and customers, " according
to the release. The first customer for the
SCFE6933 is Ball Aerospace, with whom
the board is being co-developed. Mercury
has also noted plans to make " flight unit "
versions of SCFE6933 available this year.
Another example of some of the new
SpaceVPX-aligned embedded computing
becoming available recently came from
Waterloo, Ontario-based electronic packaging
supplier Pixus Technologies. In an
August 2023 press release, Pixus announced
their new " OpenVPX chassis platform that
supports both 160 mm deep and 220 mm
deep SpaceVPX and OpenVPX 3U boards. "
" The open frame chassis features up to
four slots at 1.0 " pitch of each board depth.
The modular enclosure has card guide
options to support both air-cooled boards
and conduction-cooled boards. There are
also 220 mm deep card guides that are
wider to support extra thick SpaceVPX
conduction-cooled boards per VITA 78, "
the company notes in the release.
During the 2024 Embedded Tech
Trends event hosted by VITA, Alpha
Data, a supplier of embedded computing
systems and modules with offices in
Colorado as well as Edinburgh, gave a
presentation about its own experience
with SpaceVPX. Alpha Data Principal
Engineer Kevin Roth highlighted the
company's development of new embedded
computing modules aligned to the
SpaceVPX standard. This includes the
introduction of a reference design and
development kit for " Space 2.0, " developed
in partnership with AMD, Texas
Instruments and Teledyne E2V. Known
as the " ADM-VA601. "
An image of Alpha Data's ADM-VA601 Versal
AI Core Radiation Tolerant Reference Design &
Development Kit for Space 2.0. The kit features a
SpaceVPX Slot Profile, and AMD's Versal AI Core
System-on-Chip configuration. (Image: Alpha Data)
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Mercury's SCFE6933 is a radiation-tolerant 6U SpaceVPX FPGA processing board enabled by AMD's Xilinx
Versal AI core. The company claims that it " performs in a single board what previously required three
boards, simplifying mission architectures, and reducing costs. " (Image: Mercury Systems, Inc.)
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Power Module
Peripheral Module
Data in Module
Processing Module
Storage Module
Storage Module
Controller Module
Control Switch Module
Data Switch Module
SpaceUM Module
SpaceUM Module
Data Switch Module
Controller Module
Control Switch Module
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Storage Module
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