TOP - Radiation hard CPU for space
         
The Broad Reach Engineering BRE440 CPU is designed to meet the requirements of a wide variety of current and future space and high reliability applications. The BRE440 CPU is a fully radiation hardened implementation of the PowerPC 440 processor core in a true System-On-a-Chip design, including floating point unit.
   Broad Reach Engineering has licensed the PPC440 core from IBM and has integrated it into the in-house developed chip design. Broad Reach Engineering has contracted with Synopsys and Honeywell for the final implementation and manufacture of the devices.   The BRE440 Chip presents the culmination of several years of internal development effort aimed at producing the highest level of space based processing capabilities.
         
 
BRE440 CPU Block Diagram     Features
  • High Performance IBM PPC440 Core, 2 MIPS/MHz
  • Single & Double Precision FPU, 2 MFLOPS/MHz
  • Manufactured on Honeywell 150nm HX5000 Radiation Hardened ASIC Line
  • 200MHz Class Core Frequency
  • Superscalar, Dual Issue, 32-bit RISC, Book E Compliant
  • L1 Cache, 32k Instruction, 32k Data
  • L2 Cache, 256kBytes
  • High Bandwidth Main Memory Access with Error Detection and Correction
  • DRAM interface includes single error correct and double error detect capability (SECDED)
  • PCI Interface for Peripheral Communication
  • PCI Arbitration for up to 6 External Peripherals (Clock Distribution)
  • 4 Channel DMA with Scatter/Gather Capability
  • External Expansion Bus
  • 2 Ethernet Media Access Controllers
  • On Chip 8kB SRAM
  • 2 UART Ports (16750 Compatible)
  • Soft Error Rate (SER) <1E-10 Upsets/bit-day ( Adams 90% W.C. Environment)
  • Total Dose Hardness >100Krad(Si)
  • Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) CMOS Technology

 

Software Development Systems available now via the Starter440 CPU Board

 
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