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Space is easily the most challenging environment for IC designers. Without Earth’s atmosphere to protect them, electronic systems are vulnerable to high-energy (ionizing) radiation including alpha and beta particles, gamma and x-rays as well as galactic cosmic radiation.

The digital implementation in 16nm FinFET versus 65nm (typically used for analog RF components) results in more than 10× area reduction and 4× power reduction. Xilinx has innovated ideal design solutions to implement power integrity, digital calibration loops for high precision, and robust isolation strategies.

The use of programmable devices helps designers not only to address component obsolescence, but also to reduce the cost and complexity of the solution.

The Zynq All Programmable SoC, in tandem with new Xilinx tools and IP, forms the foundation for the next generation of embedded vision products.

The newest generation of field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) – manufactured at the proven 28nm process technology node – offer tighter integration, a reduced BOM costs and increased operational efficiency. By using off-the-shelf intellectual property (IP) and Xilinx 7 series FPGAs and Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC devices, OEMs can meet shifting market demands while avoiding the huge upfront investment of $20 million or more required to spin a new, fixed architecture device.

The Xilinx Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC already has plenty of processing power onboard. But the presence of powerful twin Cortex-A9 processors and associated peripherals in Zynq's application processing unit (APU) should not keep you from adding one or more MicroBlaze processors in the same package, if your application would benefit from them.