India, Oct. 29 -- As civil, commercial, scientific and defense spacecraft become more autonomous, software-defined and data intensive, mission developers need substantially greater onboard processing capability, combined with the resilience, security and reliability required for demanding space environments.

Microchip Technology announced several important milestones for its PIC64-HPSC High-Performance Spaceflight Computing Series, a 64-bit multicore RISC-V computing platform designed specifically for spacecraft, satellites and other mission-critical space systems.

Early radiation characterization of the PIC64-HPSC1000-RH radiation-hardened variant has demonstrated Total Ionizing Dose (TID) performance to 200 krad (Si) and successful Si...