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Goddard Space Flight Center Licenses Advanced Hybrid Processor Technology to Genesis Engineering Solutions Inc. Click here to read more.

SpaceCubeTM2.0

SpaceCubeTM is a cross-cutting, in-flight reconfigurable Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) based on-board hybrid science data processing system developed at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). The goal of the SpaceCubeTM program is to provide 10x to 100x improvements in on-board computing power while lowering relative power consumption and cost. The SpaceCubeTM design strategy incorporates commercial radiation-tolerant Xilinx Virtex FPGA technology and couples it with an integrated upset detection and correction architecture to provide reliable “order of magnitude” improvements in computing power over traditional fully radiation-hardened flight systems.

Download the SpaceCube v2.0 Product Brief here.

US Patents:

Click here to view the United States Patent, No: US8,484,509 B2 - "Radiation-Hardened Processing System"

Click here to view the United States Patent, No: US 9,549,467 - "A Printed Circuuit Board Assembly for Use in Space"

Click here to view the United States Patent, No: 9,680,527 - "Radiation Hardened 10BASE-T Ethernet PHY"

Click here to view the United States Patent, No: 9,705,320 - "Apparatus for Controlling Low Power Voltages in Space Based Processing Systems"

Click here to view the United States Patent, No: 9,851,763 - "SpaceCube v2.0 Micro Single Board Computer"

SpaceCube<sup>TM</sup> 2.0 High Performance On-Board Processor (8” x 10” x 5” / 20cm x 25cm x 13cm)

SpaceCubeTM 2.0 High Performance On-Board Processor (8" x 10" x 5" / 20cm x 25cm x 13cm)
SpaceCube<sup>TM</sup> 2.0 High Performance On-Board Processor (8” x 10” x 5” / 20cm x 25cm x 13cm)