Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are versatile components that implement a wide range of digital functions and are present in almost all digital electronic units across all ESA missions. The need for competitive European FPGAs that enable flexibility, high performance and miniaturization has been harmonized with agencies and the space industry. This strategic development has been originally defined and co-funded between ESA and CNES.
One of GSTP's most successful activities was to define, design, verify, manufacture and validate the first medium-capacity, high-performance, radiation-hardened re-programmable European FPGA (NG-MEDIUM) and its development kit.
It was the first FPGA of the Big Re-programmable Array for Versatile Environments (BRAVE) FPGA family.
This first BRAVE FPGA provides a competitive solution to develop electronic units for space. The BRAVE FPGAs flexibility through re-programmability, miniaturization and faster performance are key enabler of the Space 4.0.