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NanoXplore is a privately owned fabless company based in France. We offer a comprehensive range of SoC and FPGA devices for the aerospace, defense and industrial markets, including our leading radiation hardened FPGA portfolio. 

Devices

NanoXplore develop devices in three key areas:

  • Radiation Hardened FPGA qualified for space-grade applications and technologies including STM 65nm and 28nm FD-SOI

  • Hard block embedded FPGA (eFPGA)

  • ASIC device development

Our Radiation Hard FPGA all include specific technical documentation, evaluation boards and DevKits to discover and use all functionalities.

Evaluation Boards & DevKits

 

Development Tools

In addition to its hardware portfolio, NanoXplore has developed a complete dedicated software chain to map a hierarchical design logic application into the programmable core matrix of any NX FPGA device:

  • Impulse is a highly intuitive software environment to perform full design flow compilation and programming of FPGA's, including
    Synthesis, Place, Route, Static Timing Analysis and Bitstream generation

  • Before Impulse, NanoXplore’s NXmap was its main software suite

    • Please note that NXmap tools and documentation are still available and supported for users working with them

    • NXbase2 is a command line tool that can interact with evaluation kit boards for NanoXplore chips to upload Bitstream files to the chip and control hardware features of the evaluation kits

      Note: Communication between computer and evaluation kit boards is performed via JTAG through the ANGIE USB-JTAG adapter provided with the evaluation kit board

  • NXboard is a graphical user interface used for NXbase2 that allows easy interaction with the evaluation kit boards

  • SDK gathers embedded software tools and features for Development Kits to efficiently use complex parts of dedicated FPGA’s, such as the R5 processor for NG-Large and the NG-Ultra System On Chip (SoC) functionalities

  • NanoXplore’s License Manager Daemon (NXLMD) which is required to use NanoXplore tools

IPs

NanoXplore develops its own portfolio of Soft IP's designed to configure FPGA dedicated functionalities:

  • DDR2 DFI IP

  • SerDes IP

  • SpaceWire bank IP

NanoXplore also provides IP's designed by partners.

 

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