Applications

Quite a lot!

• Exceptional performance: Our products are built to deliver unparalleled performance in the most challenging applications.
• Flight-proven resilience: Rigorous testing under the harshest conditions ensures the reliability of our products.
• Tailored solutions: We offer customization to cater to your specific needs.
• Comprehensive support: Our wide range of support options will ensure you get the maximum value out of our products.

• Processor Boards: The beating heart of our product line, our Processor Boards come packed with various features and options to cater to diverse applications.
• Daughterboards: Our Daughterboards are compact and specialized, designed for particular applications such as SDR, imaging, or robotics.
• Software: We provide a suite of software tools to aid you in developing and deploying various applications on our products.

Xiphos' products can be accessed through multiple channels, including this website, authorized distributors, and direct sales representatives.

Absolutely. Xiphos has a rich history in creating Processor Boards designed explicitly for space applications using COTS components. Every element, from component selection to logic features, is designed to exceed your mission expectations. We've proven our capabilities in various missions and roles.

With the burgeoning New Space market, our products have found their place in numerous LEO applications, launchers, and even on the moon. We analyze your specific requirements and recommend the most suitable product to ensure mission success.

Being space mission specialists, we meticulously study, analyze, and test our products at every stage. We perform environmental and radiation qualification on our processor products, ensuring that they can handle demanding space missions. These test results are available under NDA.

We provide a Linux Software Development Kit (SDK) based on industry-standard toolchains, enabling our customers to implement their designs on our boards rapidly. We also offer a Vivado skeleton project as a starting point, leaving over 90% of the FPGA resources available for your application.

Absolutely! We collaborate closely with our customers to cater to varied interface requirements. We either provide a ready solution or guide your team on how to implement it.

Yes, we do: Our technical support aims to assist with product understanding and overcoming initial learning curves. We also provide project-specific support packages, which can be utilized to develop custom software or logic, review your design, or even aid in designing your carrier board.

- LEO: 180-2000 Km
- MEO: 2000-35780 Km
- GEO: > 35,780 km
- Moon: 384,000 km

Outgassing refers to the release of gasses trapped within or on the surface of materials in a vacuum. It's important in space to ensure you don’t contaminate the environment, and outgassing can release harmful chemicals or gasses, which could damage other spacecraft equipment or even harm astronauts.

Thermal management in space is challenging because the components operate in a vacuum, so cannot rely on convection as they would when operating on Earth. Heat must be evacuated from the electronics through conduction. Most of the power consumption comes from the processing FPGA and memory banks.

Radiation is the most challenging and complex aspect of deploying electronics in space.

We quantify radiation exposure through testing of both Total Ionizing Dose (TID), which accumulates over time, and Single-Event Effects (SEE), which is more like a lightning strike. TID is a measure of the total amount of radiation that a device is expected to be exposed to over its mission life, while SEE is a measure of the effects of the individual "hits" of radiation that a device has experienced.

Single-event upsets are bit flips in flip-flops or memory cells. Single-bit errors in memory locations can be fixed by memory scrubbing. Single-event latch-ups cause power consumption to spike, and Xiphos addresses these by quickly powering down to prevent permanent damage. The ProASIC 3 is an FPGA on Xiphos Processor Boards that provides supervisory functions to handle radiation-induced failures.

The board has dual FPGA (processor and supervisor) and ECC for its memory banks. It also provides a suite of other radiation effects mitigation features. We also ensure that the selected components can survive the harsh radiation environment of space.

Xiphos provides memory scrubbing software that can be run in the background of the main application software to clear single-bit errors in memory.

Xiphos conducts a radiation qualification test campaign, including board-level proton and TID (gamma ray) testing, as well as an environmental qualification that includes TVAC, vibration, and shock testing.

We provide spec sheets, pinout files, user manuals, mechanical drawings, and 3D STEP files, some of which are provided under NDA.

The document lists various Processor Boards with their specifications, like the Q7, Q7AE, Q7RH, Q8, Q8J, Q8RF, and Q8RH.

For Q7, there's the Q7ACS and Q7 Camera Board. For Q8, there's the Q8 Camera Board, Q8 SDR Dock, and Q8 DHMMU.

The Q7 MPSoC FPGA has multiple ‘hard core” peripherals, including 2x Gigabit Ethernet MAC, 2x USB 2.0, 2x CAN 2.0B, 2x SDIO, 2x SPI, 2x UART, 2x I2C, GPIO. For Q8, there's PCI Express 2.1, SATA 6Gbs rev 3.1, 4x Ethernet MAC rev 2.0, and 2x USB rev 2

Xiphos Technologies creates superior, high-performance processor boards and modules, leveraging the power of Xilinx FPGAs. Our products are engineered for the most demanding environments, making them ideal for anything from aerospace, defense, to industrial applications.

The Q8 and Q8J MPSoC FPGAs have multiple ‘hard core” peripherals, including 4x Gigabit Ethernet MAC, 2x USB 3.0/2.0, 2x CAN 2.0B, 2x SDIO, 2x SPI, 2x UART, 2x I2C, GPIO, PCI Express (PCIe) Gen 2, and SATA 6Gbs Rev 3.1. The Q8J also provides access to the MPSOC’s 2x PCIe Gen 3 cores in the PL.