ESA Microelectronics Section


GR740 User Day on 28. November 2019 at ESTEC, Erasmus Auditorium




SCS3740 3U SpaceVPX Single Board Computer using GR740 Processor


Robert Hillman

Data Device Corporation (DDC)

Data Device Corporation (DDC) Microelectronics business unit (formerly part of Maxwell Technologies) is a legacy supplier of Single Board Computers (SBCs) and rad hard components for Space.  DDC’s legacy SBC, the SCS750 which is Power PC based, is TRL-9 and has been used on a number of European programs. DDC has expanded its SBC offerings with a high performance, SWaP (size, weight and power) optimized 3U SpaceVPX card based on the GR740. This SBC, the SCS3740 SBC, has been designed with all space qualified, ceramic hermetic components including 128Mbyte SDRAM, 4Mbyte EEPROM, 32Gbyte FLASH NAND, power conversion/clocks and an RTAX FPGA.  DDC will present the key board features, review the SBC block diagram, discuss our general tradeoffs and challenges, as well introduce a new Development Kit platform to accelerate system integration.


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