A quick insight into the facts behind our products’ reliability and processing power: Polar Edge
Microchip’s flash-based PolarFire FPGA SoC combined with NVIDIA Jetson processors offers an ideal platform for AI/ML onboard computing
PolarFire FPGA alone makes an attractive flight computers, but paired with NVIDIA processors makes a reliable OBC for satellite & rockets, inherently designed for space environments due to vulnerabilities to Single Event Upsets (SEU), Total Ionizing Dose (TID), and latch-up issues.
Remaining challenge is Hi-power consumption of NVIDIA processors, heat management & dimension constraints. We picked up challenges & introduced PolarEdge-High End, A flight proven Edge Computers with different processing power as additional board to our OBC & keeping in CubeSat form factor!
OBC-Cube-Polar leverages cutting-edge heat pipe and heatsink technology to accommodate NVIDIA processors effectively.
Options to pair with OBC-Polar, Microchip PolarFire FPGA SoC
PolarEdge variations
| Processor/Platform | Up to 275 TOPS | VREC-265 | High-performance tasks, co-processor capable |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX | Up to 100 TOPS | 10W – 25W | High-performance task |
| NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX | Up to 21 TOPS | 7.5W – 15W | Moderate AI tasks, co-processor |
| NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano | Up to 40 TOPS | 5W – 15W | Entry-level AI applications, co-processing |
| Google Coral Edge TPU | 4 TOPS (per TPU) | 2W per TPU (0.5W/TOPS) | Low-power AI inferencing, co-processor |
| Intel Movidius Myriad X | Up to 1 TOPS | <2W | Computer vision, low-power AI tasks |
| Mythic M1076 | Up to 25 TOPS | 3W – 4W | High efficiency AI inference, low power |
| Teledyne Qormino | Quad ARM Cortex A72, 1.8GHz | 3W | Robust processing in compact spaces, radiation tolerant |
