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RUAG Space has designed a very powerful and flexible processing board - Lynx. This product is ready to meet tomorrows processing needs driven by increased digitalisation and new services such as Software Defined Radio, real-time Image Processing, Artificial Intelligence and enhanced Compression techniques.
Lynx is designed around a highly performant Processor connected via PCI-express to a modern FPGA, managing the external interfaces. This modular design makes the Processor and FPGA easily exchangeable, allowing different flavours of the product to achieve an optimal balance between price, performance and radiation hardening for a particular application. The Lynx product provides the following main characteristics:
Performance - Multi-core ARM CPU of more than 10.000 Dhrystone MIPS (DMIPS) provides ample general purpose processing power. Modern FPGA for implementation of critical processing tasks.
Connectivity - Provides custom high-speed interfaces using SERDES as well as PCI-express to interface e.g. High Speed DAC/ADC, GPU, DSP or FPGA. Also provides traditional interfaces such as SpaceWire, M1553, CAN, GPIO and UART to interface other units.
Flexibility - Prepared for several levels of flexibility; Processor and FPGA choice for optimal price/performance/reliability balance, Mezzanine connector allows for daughter board extension, several boards can be connected to increase performance or implement redundancy/voting mechanisms, only the necessary interfaces are implemented.
Reliability - State-of-the-art error detection and correction capabilities to cope with the use of commercial components with retained reliability. Radiation hardened alternatives are available for missions with very high availability/reliability requirements.
Summary
RUAG Space has developed a powerful and flexible processing board - the Lynx product.
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