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Space market is going change with the emergence of new kind of applications and new kind of business models based on more and more private funding. Space industry need to answer to different kind of challenges, on different kind of market field with at starting the same structure and teams. Indeed on top of more traditional class 1 or 2 projects driven by GEO Operators & Space Agencies, there are much more demand to look for alternative solutions to achieve significant cost reductions and better time to market to address LEO constellations ramp up & Space vehicle explosion (Launchers, Rovers, Robots, …). COTS solution are more and more used in space applications to face this new trend but it generates some concerns as soon as orbit evolution, mission duration or customer requirements are changing. So follow this trend and play in all market segments by reusing most of the electronic sub system is more and more a challenge. Microchip is going to introduce a unique ARM processor System on Chip (SoC) offering in the space electronic market with the possibility to reuse hardware and software development from an automotive COTS design to the highest level of radiations performances & space grade qualified solution.
Today, most of the space actors are facing those challenges to address different kind of demand and requirements, to look for COTS solutions to reduce costs and lead-time but also to continue to serve more traditional space demand with the right level of quality and robustness.
To support this new market set up and enable more possibilities for our customers, Microchip is proposing a unique scalable product portfolio for space applications to deal with the different kind of projects and to capitalize on proven COTS architectures and devices. In this presentation, we propose to take the example of SAMV71 High End Automotive ARM microcontroller that Microchip is going to propose in three different variant to address the full market demand based on the same SoC architecture. This unique approach enable full hardware scalability while reusing software developments and limiting system changes for end customer.
