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HyperX Midnight By Coherent Logix: The World’s Most Advanced Space Processor

July 24th, 2023
Coherent Logix

The World’s Most Advanced Space Processor

- 4x The computing throughput - 50% Lower power consumption - 40% Price advantage - 75% Faster time-to-market - C Programmable - Rad-Hard, low SWaP, and LEO, MEO, GEO Ready Pre-production estimates compared to leading rad-hard FPGAs.

Coherent Logix’s new HyperX Midnight SoC is the World’s Most Advanced Space Processor.

Compared to the leading space-qualified FPGAs, HyperX Midnight by Coherent Logix delivers up to 4x the computational throughput per chip while using less than half the power. Our processing density and efficiency are unmatched in the rad-hard market, and we deliver this with a 40 percent price advantage, too.

Our attention-based, asynchronous, massively parallel architecture is ideal for real-time wideband sensors and communication systems. Its exceptionally high data throughput, on-chip networking, and real-time program switching (<50ns) enable decisions at the edge, active response to uncertain RF environments, and intelligent refinement of data-in-motion.

HyperX Midnight is real-time reprogrammable, and on-orbit updates are easy with its onboard RISC-V GPP.

Coherent Logix is a trusted name in microprocessors, used in space applications since 2010 and achieving flight-proven TRL-9 status. Our partners and customers are best-of-breed leaders in the space 2.0, defense, and communications industries. We’ve been around the planet a few times… we’ve just been a well-kept secret until now.

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HyperX Midnight excels at wideband streaming data use cases and analysis of data in motion. Photo: Shutterstock

The Best Choice for Flight Hardware is the Best Choice for Development Teams Too

HyperX Midnight is programmable in ANSI-C, using a powerful ISDE and cycle-accurate simulator with standard software debugging practices. There is no need for timing closure or any of the other development overhead found with FPGAs.

With these advantages, HyperX Midnight customers deliver completed solutions up to 4x faster than engineers stuck with the limitations of FPGA development. That means 4 complete versions in the time it used to take to do just one — or a 75 percent reduction in development cost and time. With its exceptional performance, efficiency, and C-programmability, HyperX Midnight delivers the most headroom and flexibility for your space applications — before and after launch.

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The HyperX Fabric: attention-based, asynchronous, and massively parallel

SDR, SDN, SDx. Bring your most demanding use case. Bring several.

HyperX Midnight by Coherent Logix is ideal for routing, relay, hub, streaming data, beamforming, and MIMO use cases. It excels at SDR and SDN. Wideband-capable and able to switch programs at waveform timescales, HyperX Midnight excels at sensing and communication use cases that require: -Wideband streaming data - Analysis and refinement of data-in-motion - Autonomous decisioning at the edge - AI signal detection and analysis - Real-time Adaptive response Common use cases for HyperX: - Hyperspectral data capture and analysis - Synthetic Aperture Radar - Satellite communications and on-board networking - 5G to Satellite - MIMO

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Lower Launch Costs

HyperX Midnight is faster, more efficient, less expensive and far easier to program than its competitors, but the real difference might just be in launch costs. It can take four FPGAs to measure up to just one HyperX Midnight. That is a radical difference in cost, size and power use. Four FPGAs might take half the power budget of a small satellite - forcing a larger bus size. Not HyperX. We enable high-performance computing with a very modest power budget so customers can use the smallest platforms possible. If you think a microprocessor can’t influence your launch budget, think again.

HyperX’s density and efficiency also make it easier to launch with performance headroom. With our straightforward C-programmability and on-orbit upgrade, HyperX can extend mission life and enable continuous capability upgrades. How much is that worth?

A HyperX for Every Edge

Designed and proven for space applications, the HyperX processor family now also covers every terrestrial edge with the same high-performance, low-power, low-cost profile. Our patented and scalable HyperX design comes in a spectrum of form factors and price points, enabling convergence across platforms and devices, and improved efficiency and time-to-market for development teams.

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The HyperX Family is C-programmable, cutting development time and cost by up to 75%. Photo: Shutterstock

Software-Defined Convergence

HyperX processors are software-defined hardware. They excel at security, software-defined radio, software-defined networking, sensor, and video processing use cases. They are an affordable, powerful, green canvas for developing products. Their ultimate identity and mission are up to you and can be changed and continuously improved long after delivery into your customer’s hands.

This capability unlocks new software, service, and ARR business models for IoT, IIoT, and devices. OEMs and ODMs can deploy with affordable headroom, and using our C-programmability and in-field upgrade capability, deliver new functionality and new revenue streams long after the physical asset has shipped — and gain the added benefit of decreasing waste and meeting consumer demand for green computing.

There will be winners and losers in the race to converge. The winners will have the flexibility and speed of our patented software-defined hardware: HyperX.

Winners Start with HyperX:

There is no comparison. HyperX Midnight by Coherent Logix wins on every front. Why would you build with anything else? coherentlogix.com

Disclaimer: Performance number(s) are pre-production estimates compared to leading rad-hard FPGAs. Coherent Logix reserves the right to make changes without further notice to any products or data herein to improve reliability, function, or design.