NG-ULTRA RH — Radiation-Hardened SoC FPGA
NanoXplore
NanoXplore's NG-ULTRA RH is Europe's most capable radiation-hardened SoC FPGA: ~8M ASIC gate equivalent, quad-core ARM Cortex-R52, 33 Mb embedded RAM, 32 SERDES at 6.5 Gbps, 50 kRad TID, qualified to ESA ESCC 9030.
Technical specifications
- Logic resources
- 536,928 LUT-4s; 505,344 registers; ~8M ASIC gate equivalent
- Embedded processor
- Quad-core ARM Cortex-R52 SoC subsystem
- Embedded RAM
- 33 Mb total (32.25 Mb DPRAM + 1.51 Mb register file)
- SERDES
- 32 Tx/Rx channels at 6.5 Gbps
- SpaceWire
- 430 Mbps PHY
- DDR memory
- DDR2/DDR3 support
- I/O speed
- Up to 1.6 Gbps; multiple voltage standards
- User I/Os
- 740 total (436 logic + 304 SoC)
- Package
- BGA-1760, 45×45 mm, 1 mm pitch
- Process
- STMicroelectronics 28 nm FD-SOI
- SEU immunity
- LET > 60 MeV·cm²/mg
- TID tolerance
- 50 kRad(Si)
- Qualification
- ESA ESCC 9030 (first product qualified to this standard)
- Applications
- Galileo navigation, Copernicus EO, LEO constellation avionics, SAR processing, AI inference
About
The NG-ULTRA RH is NanoXplore’s flagship space-grade System-on-Chip FPGA, fabricated on STMicroelectronics’ 28nm FD-SOI process and combining a high-density programmable logic fabric with an integrated quad-core ARM Cortex-R52 processor subsystem on a single die. Logic resources span 536,928 LUT-4s and 505,344 registers (approximately 8 million ASIC gate equivalents), supported by 33 Mb of embedded RAM (32.25 Mb DPRAM + 1.51 Mb register file). The NG-ULTRA’s high-speed interface portfolio supports 32 SERDES transmit/receive channels at 6.5 Gbps, SpaceWire links at 430 Mbps, DDR2/DDR3 memory controllers, and up to 1.6 Gbps I/O, enabling signal-processing-intensive payloads including radar and SAR data handling, communications modem chains, and AI inference accelerators in orbit. Radiation hardening by design (RHBD) on the 28nm FD-SOI process delivers SEU immunity at LET > 60 MeV·cm²/mg and 50 kRad(Si) TID tolerance, with embedded EDAC and scrubbing across all configuration and user memories. The NG-ULTRA RH is the first product qualified to the new ESA ESCC 9030 standard (European microcircuits standard for BGA flip-chip and plastic packages). The device is housed in a BGA-1760 45×45mm / 1mm-pitch package with 740 user I/Os (436 logic + 304 SoC). NanoXplore FPGAs are baselined for Galileo, Copernicus, and numerous commercial LEO constellation programs, establishing European strategic independence from non-European rad-hard FPGA suppliers.
Documentation
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