Researchers Publish Roadmap for RISC-V Opportunities in Space Tech

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Researchers at the Delft University of Technology have published a roadmap which seeks to maximise the potential of the open RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA) for space applications across the full range of requirements from low-power microcontrollers up to high-end payload processors for artificial intelligence applications.

abopen.com, Aug. 16, 2019 – 

"This paper proposes a roadmap to address present and future needs in space systems with RISC-V processors," Stefano Di Mascio, Alessandra Menicucci, Eberhard Gill, Gianluca Furano, and Claudio Monteleone explain in the abstract to their paper, Leveraging the Opennes and Modularity of RISC-V in Space. "RISC-V is an open and modular instruction set architecture, which is rapidly growing in popularity in terrestrial applications.

"To satisfy different applications with contrasting requirements in satellite data systems, four different types of processors are identified: 1) low-area/low-power microcontrollers, 2) on-board computers, 3) general-purpose processors for payloads, and 4) enhanced payload processors for artificial intelligence.

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