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Low-SWaP SPACE
COMPUTING SOLUTIONS

Unmatched Size, Performance & Cost

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Commercial, Civil, and Defense customers rely on our space-hardened COTS-based processing solutions for operational success proven across hundreds of processors launched to date—all while meeting demanding cost and schedule requirements.

Performance and Flexibility

Experience exceptional horsepower with our hybrid MPSoC & FPGA capability and board architecture, versatile across diverse space applications.

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Durability for New Space

With a focus on Low-Earth Orbit and short lunar missions, our CPUs bring an innovative, SWaP-C optimized approach, designed to perform.

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It’s small. That’s huge

We believe in delivering maximum performance and flexibility in compact, power-efficient designs, minimizing size and weight.

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What We Do - in 20 Seconds

We develop cutting-edge computing solutions tailored for extreme space environments. Leveraging automotive and industrial-grade components in a fault-tolerant architecture, we provide robust performance costing a fraction of traditional space solutions.

By prioritizing compactness, energy efficiency, flexibility, and high performance, Xiphos offers effective alternatives to traditional flight processors for spacecraft, unmanned vehicles, robotics, and many other platforms.

Explore our advanced FPGA-based multiprocessor, System-on-Chip (SoC) processor technology, subsystems, and more.

We develop cutting-edge computing solutions tailored for extreme space environments. Utilizing automotive & industrial-grade components in a fault-tolerant architecture, we provide robust performance costing a fraction of traditional space-grade solutions. By prioritizing compactness, energy efficiency, flexibility, and high performance, Xiphos offers effective alternatives to traditional flight processors for spacecraft, unmanned vehicles, robotics, and many other platforms.

Explore our advanced FPGA-based multiprocessor System-on-Chip (SoC) processor technology, subsystems, and more.

applications

RF ISR

RF ISR

Processing power and high-speed I/O like JESD204b (Q8J) are crucial to modern RF ISR applications leveraging Software-Defined Radios (SDRs). Xiphos processors are embedded in many commercial constellations, including HE360 

ISR

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Whether it is single-band, multi-spectral, or hyperspectral imagers, EO payloads generate immense amounts of data to be transferred and processed. Xiphos processors are embedded in payload electronics of every phenomenology, and our daughterboards interface directly with the camera electronics, such as the Q8 Camera Board on the GHGSat environmental monitoring constellation.

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Space science

Space science

Space Science often pushes beyond the LEO regime to lunar, cis-lunar, and interplanetary. Xiphos is there, whether it is the robust Q8  in a lunar lander or the low SWaP Q7 in a power-constrained rover or interplanetary mission.

SPACE SCIENCE

LAUNCH

LAUNCH

Most processors are powered off during launch. Both our Q7 and Q8 have flight heritage embedded in launch vehicle avionics.

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COMMUNICATIONS

COMMUNICATIONS

Demand for space-based communications solutions is growing rapidly. Xiphos processors are imbedded in Optical Communication Terminals, Comms Software-Defined Radio (SDR) solutions, and the Q8RF is enabling the next generation of flexible digital beamforming applications.

COMMUNICATIONS

Applications

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Xiphos Q-Card processors are at the heart of many Low-Earth Orbit missions, proving our significant contribution to advancing space mission technology.

Space Exploration

As humanity prepares to revisit the moon, Xiphos's Q-Card processor products are poised to play a pivotal role in what is looking to become a monumental chapter of new space exploration.

launchers

Our Xiphos Q7S and Q8S serve as flight control computers and communication subsystems on smallsat launchers, with numerous successful launches to date. Q7S also acts as the Onboard Computer for the kick stage.

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Xiphos
Products

From the powerful Q8 – maintaining efficiency while delivering solid CPU performance – to the groundbreaking Q8RF, setting new records in RFSoC performance, our miniature processing boards redefine the limits of what’s possible. 

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The Xiphos Q8 is an extremely high-performance Processor Board based on the Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+. It is ideal for demanding space applications that require high processing power, flexibility, and low power consumption.

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This processor features the Xilinx Zynq® UltraScale+™ RFSoC and is the result of our relentless quest for evolution. It's at the forefront of our next-generation Q-Card Processors, bringing full SDR capabilities to the next level.

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Dedicated to Quality

Our products and services are maintained to the highest standards. We are AS9100 and ISO 9001:2015 certified.

Who we are?
INNOVATORS, ACHIEVERS,
AND REVOLUTIONARIES.

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Know Xiphos

Comprised of tech-obsessed mavens, Team Xiphos engineers space processors that rewrite the rules of efficiency and cost-effectiveness. In the most demanding environments, our game-changing solutions shine, delivering an unrivaled performance that has our customers come back for more.

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