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Offline FaringdonTopic starter

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What ICs are used in this rocket?
« on: Yesterday at 07:14:06 pm »
Hi,
The space rocket that just launched to the moon...
https://youtu.be/y2AslDDnk0E

What ICs are used on this for processors?  Atmel? Or they use FPGA only?

Also, what Power Supply control ICs are used?, eg, Analog.com , or they use vicorpower  modules?
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Re: What ICs are used in this rocket?
« Reply #1 on: Yesterday at 07:30:42 pm »
Hi,
The space rocket that just launched to the moon...
https://youtu.be/y2AslDDnk0E

What ICs are used on this for processors?  Atmel? Or they use FPGA only?

Also, what Power Supply control ICs are used?, eg, Analog.com , or they use vicorpower  modules?

You seriously expect anyone here to know what make of ICs or power modules are used in a Chinese Lunar probe?  ::)

Troll.


Edit: Preserved OP original post.
« Last Edit: Yesterday at 07:46:28 pm by Gyro »
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Re: What ICs are used in this rocket?
« Reply #2 on: Yesterday at 08:09:06 pm »
this one is a little light on the effort put in by topic starter


there is like, a billion different space electronics solutions that are usable in space, depending on requirement. its probobly as cheap as possible, because its not a military satellite

so you want someone to write an entire time line of how electronics changed since the apollo missions.......

https://semiconductors.teledyne-e2v.com/en/products/space-grade-solutions/space-grade-processors-modules-memories/
https://www.frontgrade.com/products/space-grade-fpgas


https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20080015740/downloads/20080015740.pdf

https://www.analog.com/en/signals/thought-leadership/challenges-for-electronic-circuits-in-space-applications.html

there that should answer your questions
« Last Edit: Yesterday at 08:13:45 pm by coppercone2 »
 

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Re: What ICs are used in this rocket?
« Reply #3 on: Yesterday at 08:30:29 pm »
They use space age technology.   ::)
 

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Re: What ICs are used in this rocket?
« Reply #4 on: Yesterday at 08:53:27 pm »
this one is a little light on the effort put in by topic starter

Regrettably, it is typical of the effort.
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Re: What ICs are used in this rocket?
« Reply #5 on: Yesterday at 09:24:45 pm »
I think the OP is trying to get into the space industry, and of course trying to figure out why China is gonna win this industry as well as with power supplies. :-+
 

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Re: What ICs are used in this rocket?
« Reply #6 on: Yesterday at 09:45:22 pm »
Watch CuriousMarc channel, they often post on (at least vintage) space electronics teardowns and repair.
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Re: What ICs are used in this rocket?
« Reply #7 on: Yesterday at 09:51:06 pm »
For anyone who is curious as to the answer rather than just with Faringdon being a troll  :).

Radiation-hardened FPGAs and microcontrollers/SoCs most likely if they are "old space". 

Or they could be using consumer devices with higher tolerance to single event upsets which is the SpaceX ("new space") approach - reasonably normal computers (they use x86 Intel processors of one kind or another) but with much redundancy and self-checking. See here:  https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/9243/what-computer-and-software-is-used-by-the-falcon-9
 


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