IEEE Space Computing: Avalanche Technology Expands Vision in Space Race, Addressing all Aspects of Radiation Resilient Computing

Avalanche Technology increased its commitment to the aerospace and defense industry with an expanded vision and associated platform solutions.

This vision is focused on solving decades-old limitations faced by the space community. Platform solutions are available today to support scalable requirements from Earth to Mars, at the device, board, system and even network level. The company presented this enhanced multi pronged vision at the upcoming IEEE Space Computing Conference, held in Mountain View, CA at the Computer History Museum from July 15 through July 19.

There is broad agreement in the aerospace and defense community that the lack of sufficiently resilient, reliable and dense NVM has been a key bottleneck to system-level innovation for decades. This forces designers to spend precious limited resources to work around the limitation, starving advancement in more substantive areas. 

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With the emergence of Avalanche Technology’s latest-gen advanced MRAM, engineers can now focus less on recreating the proverbial wheel and more on meaningful innovations. The 1st stage of the industry adoption has been significant, and the company continues to listen and respond to designers’ ongoing needs, working with partners to provide extended qual flows, software stacks and more to ensure the community has the tools required to supercharge their own innovations.

With seemingly endless use cases, each with vast impact, Avalanche has sharpened its focus on deployment in 3 phases: 

• Phase 1: Efficient and reliable boot of advanced SoCs and FPGAs with in situ multi-mission adaptability already in deployment, 
• Phase 2: Absolutely reliable storage architecture, and
• Phase 3: Scalable parallel processing framework capable of supporting the most advanced levels of AI. 

Check out the firm’ website for information on these solutions using Gen 3 products, and register to be notified as more are rolled out in support.

“We continue to evolve and sharpen Avalanche’s focus on providing solutions to the Aerospace and Defense industry’s most vexing challenges,” said Petro Estakhri, CEO, Avalanche. “By collaborating with industry leading SoC & FPGA companies to provide optimized boot solutions, enabling reliable storage technology for data centers in space, and addressing processor scaling challenges in support of advanced AI in space, we are providing a canvas for accelerated innovation industrywide.” 

Avalanche Gen 3 Space Grade MRAMs
The Gen 3 Space Grade families are offered as a standard product in parallel with asynchronous SRAM-compatible timing and Dual QSPI high speed serial interface in various density options from 1 to 8Gb. Designed for high-reliability with multibit error correction and industry leading 1,016 write cycle endurance, data is always non-volatile. The devices are offered in small footprint packaging and extended operating temperature range (-40°C to 125°C) with a JEDEC qualification flow, where every device goes through a 48-hour burn in before being shipped to customers. There are additional qualification screening and packaging options available through partners.

Resources:
AI Computing in Space
Data Centers in Space
Why MRAM Has a Clear Advantage in Aerospace and Defense Applications.