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The presentation will cover the achievements from introduction of the Digital Programmable Controller ASIC (DPC) into several space products. Full benefit of DPC introduction, like decentralization of equipment management (cfr SAVOIR reference avionic architecture), is now a reality. CANopen standard implemented as backplane data bus and digital regulation of power supply deployed.
Size & cost of the ceramic hermetic version of the component (being a key factor for constellations) has been addressed through alternative packaging: a non-hermetic BGA type package.
More than 400 flight models Ceramic DPC have been produced. More than 1000 PDC packaged into BGA.
The last TRL(9) step is now crossed as tens of DPC are orbiting totalizing more than 32 years of in orbit operation.
