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SpaceWire Solutions

Flexible Solutions for SpaceWire Networks

Add robust and reliable high-speed communication to your embedded design with our SpaceWire solutions. SpaceWire is a standard for space communications and other applications that require network connectivity, including remote monitoring of systems. Whatever your space networking challenge is, our stand-alone devices, microcontrollers (MCUs) and FPGAs with SpaceWire support make it easy to implement SpaceWire in your applications within a SpaceWire network. With this standard, the nodes are connected through low-cost, low-latency, full-duplex, point-to-point serial links and packet switching wormhole routing routers.

Featured Solutions

Deep space initiatives including planetary exploration, orbiter missions and space research require innovative spacecraft system technology that facilitates connectivity and processing. To enable better system integration and higher performance while reducing development costs and time to market, embedded connectivity technologies such as SpaceWire are increasingly used in space applications.

Space-qualified SAMRH71 Arm®-based microprocessors (MPUS) and SAMRH707 Arm-based microcontrollers (MCUs) offer highly integrated 200-Mbps SpaceWire interfaces.

Browse Our SpaceWire Portfolio

SpaceWire Embedded MPUs

The PIC64-HPSC series of 64-bit MPUs offers powerful, high-performance computing capabilities for complex and computationally intensive tasks and embeds seven RMAP-compatible SpaceWire ports with internal routers and one port for emergency access that supports data transfer rates from 10 Mbps to 200 Mbps.

SpaceWire MCUs

We offer a complete line of 32-bit MCUs with integrated single-ended and differential SpaceWire interfaces:

  • SAMRH71: 100 MHz Arm® Cortex®-M7 based MCU with two differential SpaceWire links and RMAP support
  • SAMRH707: 50 MHz Arm Cortex-M7 based MCU with two flexible single-ended/differential SpaceWire links and RMAP support

SpaceWire FPGAs

Our wide range of radiation-tolerant FPGAs lets you select the right device to hit your power, size, cost and reliability targets to reduce time to launch and minimize cost and schedule risks.

With a wide range of third-party partner SpaceWire IP cores, we can help accelerate your design productivity by providing an extensive suite of proven, optimized, and easy-to-use SpaceWire IP cores for use with our FPGAs.

SpaceWire Routers

Extend your application’s SpaceWire network with our routing capabilities. Enable data transfer and routing between 10 ports or less with our stand-alone SpaceWire router.