We are a world leader in embedded computer systems for harsh environments, with footprints in many parts of the solar system.
We provide the full ecosystem to support digital hardware design for mission critical System-on-a-Chip solutions. The IP cores and development tools support processors based on the SPARC and RISC-V architectures. In addition to this, a number of standard components are available.
RISC-V Processor Model - NOEL-V
The NOEL-V is a synthesizable VHDL model of a processor that implements the open RISC-V architecture from the RISC-V International organization.
This is the first released model in the RISC-V product line of processors. Seven different configurations are now available for NOEL-V, ranging from a tiny 32-bit version to a 64-bit high performance version. NOEL-V complements the LEON line of processors.
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Rad-Hard Dual-Core Processor
Dual-Core LEON3-FTGR712RC Radiation-hard Dual-Core LEON3-FT Processor, 200 MIPS, 200 MFLOPS |
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Rad-Hard Quad-Core System-on-Chip
Quad-Core LEON4-FTGR740 Radiation-hard Quad-Core LEON4-FT Processor, 1000 MIPS, 1000 MFLOPS |
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 GR740 CG625 |
Rad-Hard Quad-Core System-on-Chip - Plastic
Quad-Core LEON4-FTGR740-PBGA Plastic Radiation-hard Quad-Core LEON4-FT Processor, 1000 MIPS, 1000 MFLOPS |
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Latest Releases
| NOEL-V processor model LEON5 processor model GRLIB IP Library 2021.2-b4267 GR712RC user's manual 2.13 GR712RC data sheet 2.4 GR740 user's manual 2.5 GR716 data sheet 2.0 GR718B user's manual 3.7 |
GRMON3 Debug Monitor 3.2.12 GRMON2 Debug Monitor 2.0.99 TSIM3 LEON Simulator 3.1.3 TSIM2 LEON/ERC32 Simulator 2.0.66 BCC Bare-C Compiler 2.2.0 RCC RTEMS Compiler 1.2.25, 1.3.1 VxWorks 7 support for LEON VxWorks 6.9 support for LEON |
LEON and NOEL FPGA Evaluation Designs
| LEON/GRLIB examples for Microchip RTG4 LEON5/GRLIB examples for Microchip PolarFire LEON5/GRLIB examples for Xilinx Kintex Ultrascale NOEL-V/GRLIB examples for Microchip PolarFire NOEL-V/GRLIB examples for Xilinx Kintex Ultrascale NOEL-V/GRLIB examples for Digilent Arty-A7 |
RISC-V Summit 2021
Our colleagues will be presenting two papers at the RISC-V Summit this year: "Radiation Hardening and Fault-Tolerance Features of the NOEL-V Processor" and "Adding H Support to the NOEL-V Microprocessor". RISC-V Summit brings the community together to show the power open collaboration can have on the processor industry. The audience spans across industries, organizations, workloads, and geographies to learn about the technology advancements in the RISC-V ecosystem and visibility of RISC-V successes.
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ESA's Industry Space Days 2021
Meet our team in our Identify trends and business opportunities within the space sector during the online Industry Space Days. Hear from ESA as well as new, emerging and established players in the European space industry, showcase your products and services and meet future partners when attending the ISD 2021 – The conference edition.
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The Swedish Cyber Security Collaboration Conference
We are presenting the "Certifierbara system-på-kisel för säkerhets-kritiska tillämpningar inom industrin" paper at the Swedish Cyber Security Collaboration Conference on 2nd of December. The presented work is based on our NOEL-V processor implements the RISC-V International instruction set architecture.
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D&R IP SoC Conference 21
We are exhibiting and presenting the "Feature set extensions of NOEL-V, a configurable 32-bit and 64-bit RISC-V IP" paper at the D&R IP SoC Conference 21 in Grenoble, France, 1st and 2nd of December 2021. Our NOEL-V processor implements the RISC-V International instruction set architecture.
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15th ESA Workshop on Avionics, Data, Control and Software Systems (ADCSS)
We are virtually exhibiting and presenting the "The Advanced Payload Processors (APPs) IOD for the GOMX-5 Mission" at the 15th ESA Workshop on Avionics, Data, Control and Software Systems (ADCSS). The APPs payload will demonstrate in orbit several technologies developed under European Space Agency - ESA funding, including the GR740 quad-core microprocessor in plastic package, the GR716A microcontroller, as well as the SQUAL4c test chip implemented on 28nm FDSOI GEO P2 space technology from STMicroelectronics, featuring the LEON5 processor and the NOEL-V processor (implementing the RISC-V International instruction set architecture).
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Space Tech Expo 2021
We are showcasing our our high-performance SPARC and RISC-V space processors at Space Tech Expo - Europe, in Bremen during 16 through 18 November. Visit the CAES booth in stand number K33.
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JAXA Microelectronics Workshop 2021
We are presenting the evolution of our high-performance SPARC and RISC-V space processors at the Microelectronics Workshop (MEWS34) arranged by JAXA - Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.
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Rymdforum 2021
The Rymdforum 2021 conference (the Swedish biennial Space Forum) will present news, explore trends, and open for dialogue and discussions related to space activities. The conference will take place in Gothenburg, 10-12 October 2021. Together with the Chalmers University of Technology and the City of Gothenburg, we will be arranging the conference. Follow the progress of the conference on social media and on the conference web site. Meet also our colleagues in our exhibit booth!
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Astronomins Dag och Natt 2021
The Astronomins dag och natt event takes everything that is exciting about astronomy and the universe and makes it accessible to everyone in Sweden. This year it will be the tenth anniversary of the event which is coordinated by the Swedish Astronomical Society. We are proud to be contributing with a presentation on space computing as part of the main program at Tekniska museet in Stockholm, as well as contributing to the Space theme day at Lövgärdesskolan in Gothenburg in collaboration with Chalmers University of Technology, the City of Gothenburg and its largest housing company Poseidon.
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DAta Systems In Aerospace 2021
Meet us and our colleagues at the Industrial Exhibit at the DAta Systems In Aerospace 2021 conference. Don't miss our four papers to learn more about our LEON5 and NOEL-V next generation processor models for space, the reference hardware and software design for a GR740 single board computer, our radiation hardened GR716 series of microcontrollers, and our High Performance Compute Board based on COTS acceleration. Please also have a look the De-RISC project which is a dependable real-time RISC-V infrastructure for safety-critical space and avionics computer systems presented by our partner fentISS.
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Radiation and its Effects on Components and Systems 2021
Meet us and our colleagues at the Industrial Exhibit at the Radiation and its Effects on Components and Systems 2021 conference. Don't miss our poster at the data workshop to learn more about our radiation testing results of Artificial Intelligence COTS devices.
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Enabling Critical Infrastructure for Next Generation Lunar Landers
We have been selected by Astrobotic Technology, a space robotics company, to supply flight control processors and critical infrastructure microelectronics for the Peregrine and Griffin lunar landers that will study the surface of the Moon. With the industry’s largest portfolio of radiation hardened products specifically designed for space, this new mission marks a return trip to the moon for CAES microelectronics. The GR712RC, a LEON3FT SPARC V8 processor, will serve as the mission flight computer and will provide low power, multi-core capability. Also embedded in each mission’s flight control suite are several other CAES’ radiation hardened devices.
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Contract from Vinnova to Advance High Performance RISC-V Space Computing
We have been awarded a contract from Vinnova, a Swedish government agency dedicated to promoting innovation, to develop next generation RISC-V based space computing capabilities. The results from this development will allow future microprocessors to enable spacecraft control, create high performance payload processing and will feature timing isolation for software applications and prevent interference from other parts of the system. The new NOEL-V fault-tolerant, 64-bit processor core is based on the open RISC-V instruction set architecture and builds upon our heritage with the SPARC/LEON architecture. It marks the newest addition to our trusted fault tolerant space computing product portfolio.
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Nuclear & Space Radiation Effects Conference 2021
Meet us and our colleagues at the Industrial Exhibit at the Nuclear & Space Radiation Effects Conference 2021. Don't miss our webinar at NSREC to learn more about our leading radiation hardened solutions and capabilities.
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GR740 SBC and HPCB with GR716A presented at OBDP 2021
The "GR740 Single Board Computer" and "High-Performance Compute Board - a Fault-Tolerant Module for On-board Vision Processing" developments will be presented at the 2nd European Workshop on On-Board Data Processing (OBDP 2021), 14-17 June 2021. Both developments are done together with multiple partners in the frame of contracts with the European Space Agency. The GR740 SBC reference design is based on the rad-hard GR740 quad-core LEON4FT microprocessor, while the HPCB board features a state of the art low-power COTS AI chip and the rad-hard single-core LEON3FT GR716A microcontroller. Both boards also feature high-end FPGA devices to provide flexibility to the user.
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GR740 and GR716A Presented at ESA CubeSat Industry Days 2021
The "Advanced Payload Processors IOD for the GOMX-5 Mission" will be presented at the 5th ESA CubeSat Industry Days, 1-3 June 2021. The presentation covers the complete in-orbit demonstrator, with contribution from several European and international partners, and specifically focuses on the GR740 quad-core LEON4FT mircoprocessor in the new plastic package and the GR716A single-core LEON3FT microcontroller. The presentation will also cover a new test chip on 28nm technology that includes the recently released super-scalar LEON5 and NOEL-V processor IP cores that will also be demonstrated in orbit.
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GR716 Microcontroller Presented at AMICSA 2021
The GR716 microcontroller family will be presented at the 8th International Workshop on Analogue and Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuits for Space Applications, 25 – 28 May 2021. The AMICSA workshop provides an international forum for the presentation and discussion of recent advances in analogue and mixed-signal VLSI design techniques and technologies for space applications.
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Contract signed with the European Space Agency for New Advanced Space Processor
As a leader in advanced mission-critical electronics, we announced today that we have received a contract from the European Space Agency (ESA) to fund the first phase to develop a new advanced processor for space applications. Developed in Sweden and based on the popular LEON5FT Fault Tolerant Processor Core, the GR765 Microprocessor meets market demand for high-performing processors, offering a higher level of integration with more functionality on the chip to reduce weight and keep power consumption low.
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Our microelectronics arrive on Mars to Help Pioneer the Future of Space Missions
We have processor also onboard UAE’ HOPE spacecraft in orbit around the Red Planet, as well as it’s bigger brother GR712RC LEON3FT dual-core microprocessor on ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, which will relay data back from Perseverance.
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Daiteq Selected as the First ESA NOEL-V User
We have proudly announced from the RISC-V Summit that its new NOEL-V processor model is in use by daiteq’s European Space Agency (ESA) research activity, “Evaluation and Instruction Set Extension of a RISC-V Soft Core for Space".
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NOEL-V Processor Support Introduced for Wind River VxWorks RTOS
We have proudly announced at the RISC-V Summit the availability of Wind River’s real-time operating system VxWorks for the NOEL-V processor IP core.
For more than 15 years, the partnership has provided customers with VxWorks for the fault tolerant LEON3FT and LEON4FT processor families and other space-grade microprocessors. Wind River recently introduced RISC-V support in Simics and VxWorks, for which the NOEL-V BSP has been developed. Now we can together with Wind River strengthen the partnership to include RISC-V and NOEL-V.
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Deepened Collaboration around RISC-V with fentISS
We have proudly announced at the RISC-V Summit that fent Innovative Software Solutions (fentISS), a developer of software solutions specifically designed for critical real-time embedded partitioned systems, has agreed to mutually promote flagship products NOEL-V and LEON5 processors and the XtratuM Next Generation (XNG) hypervisor.
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NOEL-V Support for Microchip Technology’s PolarFire® FPGA Devices
We have proudly announced at the RISC-V Summit that two of its new processor models are now available for Microchip’s PolarFire FPGA devices. The LEON5 SPARC V8 32-bit processor is a continuation of the successful LEON line of processor models primarily used within space applications. The NOEL-V is now also released in a 32-bit version as part of the processor product line that implements the open instruction set architecture from RISC-V International.
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Porting PikeOS to NOEL-V and LEON: Extend Cooperation with SYSGO around RISC-V
As RISC-V international members, we have together with SYSGO have announced a collaboration to deliver SYSGO's hypervisor-based real-time operating system, PikeOS, ported onto our IP cores NOEL-V and LEON.
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