NG-LARGE

NG-LARGE NX1H140ATSP is the second generation of Radiation Hardened By Design (RHBD) SRAM-based FPGA developped by NanoXplore, manufactured on the rad-hard 65nm CMOS technology platform for space applications from ST Microelectronics. The programmable matrix designed architecture, larger than the one built for the NG-MEDIUM NX1H35AS on the same technology, is based on a similar interconnect architecture made of 4-input Look-up tables with LUT extender to support wider operations, configurable DFF, Coarse Grain Blocks with user configurable memories and Digital Signal Processing units, etc… offering a high logic density.

In addition, the NG-LARGE NX1H140ATSP offers the following additional features:

  • 24 High-Speed Serial Links from 0.70 to 6.25Gbps compliant to most serial I/O protocols, ie Space-Fibre, Serial Rapid I/O, ESIstream and JESD204B

  • an Embedded Hard IP Processor core which is a RHBD single-core ARM Cortex-R5

This page provides a list of all available documentations related to use efficiently the NG-LARGE NX1H140ATSP.

Documentation

As a radiation hardened FPGA, the NG-LARGE NX1H140ATSP is currently going through a qualification process for flight applications. The datasheet of the NG-LARGE follow the following rules:

 

The NG-LARGE NX1H140ATSP is configured by loading the bitstream into internal configuration memory using one of these following programming modes:

  • JTAG,

  • Slave Parallel 8 bits,

  • Slave Parallel 16 bits,

  • Slave SpaceWire, compliant ECSS-E-ST-50-12C link,

  • Master SPI, compliant with SPI JESD68.01

The configuration guide documentation described every programming mode with associated features and usages:

Configuration Guide

 

The NG-LARGE NX1H140ATSP is assembled in either Ceramic/Hermetic packages for Traditional Space projects as well as Organic package for New Space missions. The packaging & pinout page provides detailed description of the Plastic/Ceramic packaging solutions used to assemble the NG-LARGE NX1H140ATSP and the associated pinout:

Packaging & pinout

 

The complete NG-LARGE NX1H140ATSP ballout is available in the following page:

NG-LARGE ballout

 

The NG-LARGE NX1H140ATSP includes an ARM Cortex R5 Processor as hard macro, the usage of the Cortex R5 is described in the following page:

NG-LARGE Cortex R5

 

Given specific configuration and context used to program resources of the FPGA matrix, the size of the bitstream generated may vary based on what is used for the application. The Bitstream Size Estimator gives an estimation on which resources will have an impact on the size of the bitstream:

Bitstream Size Estimator

 

NanoXplore provides characterized data through IBIS models for temperature and corner case conditions aimed for simulation works. Power consumption estimation can be computed using NXPowerEstimator for any project application given which kind and how many resources will be used to map the design:

IPs compatible with NG-LARGE

NanoXplore is willing to develop internal IPs for NG-LARGE use and already work with third-partner providers for some IPs currently available within the NXcore tool, part of the NXmap software chain.

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