Silicon

Silicon.
Tailored to mission needs — fast.

Controlling semiconductors is the highest leverage in modern aerospace. Yet, custom silicon remains too slow and too scarce. We fixed this by turning chip design into a compile step.

Our full-stack proprietary engine translates your complex system requirements into fault-protected silicon, configured as quickly as 24 hours and delivered in four months. Stop compromising — generate the exact silicon you need, on demand.

Fully EU supply chain

Die floorplan, gate-drive block
Radiation>100 krad(Si) · >60 MeV·cm²/mg
Temperature−55 … +175 °C
Voltages1.8 … 200 V
System SWaPx5 smaller
— 01 / Off-the-shelf chips

Off-the-shelf chips.

Standard parts drawn from the same IP library and the same engine as our custom work. Each one is configurable — the rails, limits, and interfaces can be quickly adapted to the mission needs instead of designing around a fixed-function part. Where a standard chip covers the requirement, it is the fastest route to flight.

01.1

Buck converter

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Configurable point-of-load and bus regulation for space-grade power systems.

  • Input range, output voltage, and current limit set in configuration — one qualified part across many rails.
  • Optimised for GaN gate drive.
  • Integrated over-current, over-temperature, and under-voltage protection.
  • Telemetry of rail voltage, current, and die temperature.
  • Rad-hard/tolerant (up to 100 krad(Si) / 62.5 MeV·cm²/mg).
01.2

Stepper motor driver

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Bipolar stepper controller and driver for actuators and deployment mechanisms.

  • Microstepping resolution, phase current configuration.
  • Phase current regulation and GaN gate drive.
  • Integrated resolver driver and receiver.
  • Over-current and over-temperature protection.
01.3

3-phase BLDC motor driver

concept

Brushless-DC controller and driver for reaction wheels, control-moment gyros, and mechanism actuation.

  • Three-phase commutation with integrated gate drive.
  • Closed-loop current and velocity control on-chip.
  • Hardware accelerated Clarke and Park transforms.
  • Configurable current limits, ramp profiles, and protection.
  • Telemetry and fault flags over a standard digital interface.
01.4

Latching current limiter (LCL)

concept

Protects and switches downstream loads on the satellite power bus.

  • Trip current and class — LCL, retriggerable, high-power — set in digital configuration.
  • Static PMOS or switched GaN versions in development.
  • Integrated current sense, power switch, and latch-and-retry logic.
  • Autonomous retry with configurable count and timing.
  • Per-channel current, voltage, and trip-state telemetry.
01.5

Fault-tolerant microcontroller

concept

Subsystem control where a soft error cannot be allowed to propagate.

  • Lock-step processors with fault recovery.
  • Triple-mode bus redundancy with error-corrected memory.
  • Configurable peripheral and interface set.
  • Deterministic, watchdog-supervised execution.
01.6

Sensor front-end

concept

Configurable acquisition for platform and payload sensing — temperature, current, strain, and position.

  • Channel count, gain, and filtering set in configuration.
  • Integrated analogue front-end, reference, and converter.
  • Low-noise acquisition, calibrated across temperature.
  • Standard digital interface to the subsystem controller.
Fig. 01DC/DC converter chip core.
Fig. 02Internal power management unit.
Fig. 03Integrated temperature telemetry.
— 02 / Building blocks

Modular IP library.
Configurable, qualified, reusable.

— 02.1 Digital

Digital blocks.

Fault-tolerant RISC-V cores, error-correcting memory (ECC), rad-hard configuration registers, and FDIR hardware state machines. Standard interfaces including SPI, I2C, CAN, and MIL-STD-1553.

RISC-V · ECC · CAN · 1553
— 02.2 Analog

Analog blocks.

Precision bandgap references, power-on reset, high-performance low-dropout (LDO) linear regulators, operational amplifiers, temperature sensors, and high-precision analog-to-digital converters (ADCs).

BG · POR · LDO · ADCs
— 02.3 Subsystems

Power & actuator.

Latching current limiters (LCL), current sensing, half/full H-bridge drivers, sensor conditioning, and specialised thermocouple and resolver interfaces for high-reliability actuator control.

LCL · H-Bridge · Thermocouple · Resolver
— 03 / Method

A resilient mixed-signal silicon compiler stack.

i.

Automated design generation

We combine proven analogue and digital building blocks using our automated software platform, generating optimised chip layouts directly from high-level system requirements.

ii.

Reliability-aware modelling

Rigorous simulation and verification, including transistor-level FMEA and aging simulations. Radiation and high temperature are modelled explicitly — multi-scenario radiation analysis, and device behaviour characterised across −55 … +175 °C.

iii.

Sovereign European supply

We manage fabrication, testing, and packaging through a trusted, fully secure, and sovereign European semiconductor supply chain to eliminate supply and obsolescence risk.

iv.

Standard-compliant flow

Design compliant with ECSS and ISO standards.

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