Description of the Project
The EXCEED project aims at creating an European supply chain of reconfigurable, flexible and trustable Programmable SoC family targeting a number of ruggedized and secure defence applications such as for RF sensors and signal processing arrays, flexible Radios, secure positioning and Navigation, UAV data links, military networks, flexible cryptography engines, dismounted soldier, guidance and mission critical controllers. EXCEED stands for trustEd and fleXible system-on-Chip for EuropEan Defence applications.
The SoC combines key ingredients for high performance system integration; a fault-tolerant real-time ARM core tightly coupled with RAM, FPGA and DSP MAC blocks provide flexibility over 5000 DMIPS computing power and a secure microcontroller HW/SW engine. Various dimensions of blocks, I/Os and package will define the whole family fitting application’s needs.
Security protection of the SoC and SiP is assigned paramount importance.
Industrial Partners
Indra's Role
Indra will lead and coordinate the work for SoC functional evaluation. This implies tasks of coordination, design and development of the SoC evaluation board (EvB) including both electrical and functional tests.
Indra will also contribute in activities regarding its experience and background as Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) like SoC requirements definition or the coordination for implementation on the EvB of a set of representative use cases defined by the OEMs group.
Universities and Technology centres
Technologies used
System on Chip is a new generation component that integrates different functions that traditionally where in single devices. This new technology allows more compact solutions answering to the requirements of future Defence Systems.
Indra Sistemas intends to use EXCEED SoC in the future for its Radio Frequency Systems (Electronic Warfare and Radar systems) in order to reduce their weight, size and power (SWaP) and eliminate dependence from non-European suppliers assuring security requirements compliance.
More information
This Project, with file number PADR - 831747, has been co-financed by the EDA within the PREPARATORY ACTION IN DEFENSE RESEARCH (PADR)
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