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#riscv #spacecomputing | Frontgrade Gaisler
Don’t miss our booth at the RISC-V in Space Workshop 2025 going on right now in our home town Gothenburg. We have so many news to share with you! #riscv…
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#riscv #spacecomputing | Sandi Habinc
It has been great seeing Florian Wohlrab from OpenHW Foundation again. This time at the RISC-V in Space Workshop in Gothenburg. Flo is a true ambassador…www.linkedin.com
Frontgrade microprocessors are radiation hardened for space. The Vorago/BRN partnership (Sept'2020) in the NASA phase 1 project was for radiation-hardened neuromorphic processor tailored for spaceflight applications. There has been no information provided since.![]()
#riscv #spacecomputing | Frontgrade Gaisler
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I believe that SNNs have some inate resilience to radiation errors because they opertae on probability rather than mathematical precision used in CPU/GPU. A one bit error in a CPU will produce an incorrect answer, whereas in an SNN, it will make a small difference in the probability, but would not affect the result .Frontgrade microprocessors are radiation hardened for space. The Vorago/BRN partnership (Sept'2020) in the NASA phase 1 project was for radiation-hardened neuromorphic processor tailored for spaceflight applications. There has been no information provided since.
I note that Vorago is still a marquee client so likely still subject to an NDA.
Other than that, i am not sure whether AKIDA has its own version of radiation hardened chips.
Does anyone know for sure???
Hi ILL,
I seem to recall that, when our partnership with SiFive was mentioned, the company expressed great enthusiasm for the potential of Akida and RISC_V.
There's a lot of talk about a failed Intel takeover bid ($2B) in 2021.
Hi there @DingoBorat I was also confused as why the SP going down not just BRN ( good news kept coming) my few other share holding had good news announced and all were sitting in red I dont get this ASX anymore.
Evening Diogenese ,I believe that SNNs have some inate resilience to radiation errors because they opertae on probability rather than mathematical precision used in CPU/GPU. A one bit error in a CPU will produce an incorrect answer, whereas in an SNN, it will make a small difference in the probability, but would not affect the result .
I think the fully depleted silicon on insulator also improves radhardness.
That said, I'm not aware that BRN has itself done a radhard design.
Someone is probably alluding to Richard Montañez, the son of Mexican immigrants, who initially worked as a caretaker for the snack manufacturer Frito-Lay. One day, he came up with the idea for Flamin' Hot Cheetos. At least that's the story of the movie I saw recently.
It's on F.G. website.Nothing new, not sure if this has been posted:
https://www.design-reuse.com/news/57632/frontgrade-gaisler-grain-neuromorphic-ai-space.html
Frontgrade Gaisler Launches New GRAIN Line and Wins SNSA Contract to Commercialize First Energy-Efficient Neuromorphic AI for Space Applications
Gothenburg, Sweden -- April 3, 2025 – The Swedish National Space Agency (SNSA) has awarded Frontgrade Gaisler, a leading provider of radiation-hardened microprocessors for space missions, a contract to commercialize the first neuromorphic System on Chip (SoC) device for space applications. Already in development at Frontgrade Gaisler, the device is part of the company’s new GRAIN (Gaisler Research Artificial Intelligence NOEL-V) product line.
The first GRAIN device that Frontgrade Gaisler will premier – the GR801 SoC – integrates AkidaTM neuromorphic technology from BrainChip, the world’s first commercial producer of ultra-low power, fully digital, event-based, neuromorphic AI. The GR801 combines Gaisler’s NOEL-V RISC-V processor and the Akida™ neuromorphic AI processor into a single integrated circuit to enable energy-efficient AI applications in the space environment. Sweden’s Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) is contributing to this development by designing a demonstration application that uses a neuromorphic sensor directly connected to Gaisler’s new GR801 device.
If Frontgrade is bringing out a processor containing Akida, is it under a licence or a partnership?
Frontgrade are designing a complete SoC including a processor and Akida IP (so we don't need to worry about where the chips are coming from).
This looks like a licence as it has a specific Frontgrade product number, but the article refers to "collaboration".
“Our continued collaboration with Frontgrade Gaisler to incorporate Akida IP into space SoCs showcases the importance of having environmentally hardened solutions, already proven to perform in the most extreme condition,” said Sean Hehir, CEO of BrainChip. “We have worked hard to ensure our neuromorphic technology can meet the low-energy,low-latency, high-performance needs of GRAIN and other space-based devices in order to provide AI at – and beyond – the edge.”
... "already proven in the most extreme conditions"
We've already had a couple of radhard developments:
https://brainchip.com/edgx-announce...sruptive-data-processing-solutions-for-space/
Then there's EdgeX and Ant61.
While space is a high prestige application, it is relatively low volume, but there is often a crossover from space to military.