Avalanche Technology Ships First High-Density PEMS-Qualified MRAM Enabling In-Orbit Reprogrammability

Avalanche Technology announced its 1st shipments of high-density PEMS-qualified products to the Aerospace and Defense community.

Leveraging the company’s Gen 3 Space Grade Dual QSPI product family, known for its enabling capabilities, these newly available pin compatible extended qualification and screening solutions for NASA PEMS INST-0001 provide additional scalability to meet evolving mission requirements on several levels.

In production, these Gen 3 Space Grade MRAM product families have addressed long standing industry bottlenecks in high-reliability, radiation-resilient, high-density NVM. The products provide SWaP-optimized architectural simplicity and enable step functions in system and satellite network level innovation. with rugged embedded system- and board-based solutions.

The products include pin compatible options from 1 to 8Gb. With scalable solutions for enhanced qualification and screening, including NASA PEMS versions through Avalanche and partners such as FrontGrade Technologies and Micross, the community has valuable optionality for software defined hardware platforms to support a range of customer mission requirements. AiTech Systems is one such customer, leveraging their 40 years of experience and expertise to provide a range of space-qualified board-level components to enable system-ready orbital electronics which reduce time to market, design costs and mitigate both near and long term risk. AiTech is using Gen 3 High-Density Parallel and Dual QSPI devices on an image processing compact PCI platform, supporting reliable configuration and datalogging, with support for alternate mission use cases and flexible operation while in space.

“In the ‘Final Frontier’ of Space, few things are certain apart from rapid change, an unforgiving environment, and ongoing pressure to do more with less SWaP“, said Ralph Grundler, director, space business development and R&D, Aitech. “By leveraging optimized hardware and software architectures made possible in part by Avalanche MRAM, our customers can benefit from space-ready, AI-enabled systems that can scale with evolving mission objectives over time, reduce risk, drive ROI, and allow them to focus on innovation at the application level.“

“Avalanche is committed to enabling the Aerospace & Defense community with an array of solutions to meet the stringent cross section of needs: high reliability, scalability and upgradability“, said Paul Chopelas, GM, aerospace and defense products, Avalanche. “A lineup of compact software defined hardware solutions to meet varying orbital and mission needs, while also offering in-orbit upgradability is what the industry requires for fiscal viability, survivability, and innovation.”

Resources:
AI Computing in Space – (registration required)
Data Centers in Space – (registration required)
Why MRAM Has a Clear Advantage in Aerospace and Defense Applications – (registration required)