Specialized Payload & Instrument Electronics

Broad Reach Engineering designs specialized payload and instrument electronics to accomplish specific mission goals. Examples range from high voltage and very low current monitoring systems to high-speed payload data processing electronics. Broad Reach Engineering can deliver complex instrument electronics for your specialized science mission – in space, on earth, or any other planet.

Key Capabilities

• Custom Processor Solutions
• FPGA or CPU Based Designs
• PowerPC Designs
• Actel FPGAs & XILINX Virtex Reconfigurable FPGAs
• DC to RF Designs
• Ultra Low-Current to High Voltage Designs
• Low to High-Volume Non-Volatile/Volatile Data Storage
• In-Situ Data Processing via FPGA or CPU
• Redundant or Single String Systems
• 3U, 6U cPCI or Custom Form Factor
• 422, 485, 1553, 1773, LVDS, SCSI, SpaceWire and Proprietary Data I/O
• All Parts SEL Immune
• SEU Mitigated Design
• 30 kRad to >1 MRad Designs

Example Developments

Instrument Interface Electronics

• Data Processing & Encryption Board
  • Ball / Digitalglobe Worldview-1/2
• Vibration Isolation System Data Acquisition Board
  • Honeywell / Tacsat-2
• Ion Probe Data Acquisition System
  • AFRL / Tacsat-2
• Instrument Interface Electronics
  • NASA ST-7 / LISA Pathfinder
• RF Amplifiers & Diplexers
  • IGOR / IGOR+ Receivers

Contact Broad Reach Engineering today to discuss your Science Payload & Instrument Electronics needs.

Ion Propulsion Experiment

Signal Processing Board

RF Diplexers & Amplifiers

Data Processing & Encryption

RF Front End & Sampling