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The Mirideon board is as single board computer designed for space applications. The Mirideon is the first offering from Broad Reach Engineering featuring the BRE440 PowerPC® based system-on-a-chip processor.

     

Specifications

  • TID levels
    • Processor > 1 MRad
    • DRAM > 50 kRad
    • other > 100 kRad
  • Latch-up > 80 Mev/mg/cm^2
  • SEU performance
    • Processor > 40years/upset ( Adams 90%)
    • All memory has SEU mitigation
  • 2 Mhours MTBF, 30°C predicted
  • Memory
    • 512 MB DDR DRAM with single error correct double error detect EDAC. 5 Gbps access bandwidth.
    • 128 kB EEPROM with hardware majority voting (triple module redundancy, 128 kB x3 device total)
    • 16 MB FLASH with software majority voting (triple module redundancy, 16 MB x 3 device total) - optional
  • Board temp. -40°C to 71°C (at wedge locks)
  • BRE440 processor core frequency
    • 83 MHz: -55° to 125°C
    • 133 MHz: -10° to 80°C
  • Single 3.3V supply
    • 9 Watts peak
    • 5 watts typical
  • 3U cPCI (100mm x 175mm x 20mm)
  • ~250 grams

 

  • 10/100 Mbps RMII Ethernet interface with LVDS buffers provides a high speed debug port
  • JTAG interface with RS422 buffers provides noise tolerance and extended cable lengths
  • Two(2) UART ports, configurable BAUD rates
  • 32 bit 33MHz PCI with 64 bit 66MHz option
  • Configurable for cPCI system slot or peripheral slot operation; Initiator and Target operation.
  • Compatible with multiple operating systems Linux, OSE, Integrity, Arinc-653, Tornado etc.
  • Initial board support package planned for VxWorks.
  • Two front panel connectors provide Ethernet, JTAG and UART interfaces.
  • Front panel also provides 2 general purpose inputs and 1 general purpose output via RS422 buffers (not shown in block diagram).
 
Mirideon engineering unit boards will be available in Q3 of 2009.

Flight boards are expected to be available in Q4 of 2009.
 
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