Consortium

NanoXplore is a privately owned fabless company based in France. The company was created by three veterans of semiconductor industry with long experience in the design, test and debugging of FPGA cores. NanoXplore is therefore a leader in the design of large scale programmable logic arrays for state of the art FPGA cores. The company is developping a family of rad-hard FPGA.

Airbus Defence and Space, a division of Airbus Group, is Europe’s number one defence and space enterprise and the second largest space business worldwide. Its activities include space, military aircraft and related systems and services. It employs more than 38,000 people and in 2015 generated revenues of over 13 billion Euros. Airbus DS Gmbh, Airbus DS SAS, 100% owned by Airbus Group are worldwide leader in the space domain. The entities involved in DUROC project are part of the Electronics division of Airbus Defence and Space. Airbus DS has more than 40 years of experience in design, development and validation of Electronic Units for Subsystems and Payloads. Regardless of their application, the majority of European satellites fly with Airbus DS Electronic Units: Telecommunication (e.g. Eurostar and Spacebus), Earth Observation (e.g. Envisat, Spot), Scientific (e.g. Rosat, SOHO, Rosetta, Mars Express), and Military Satellites (e.g. Skynet4, Helios).

Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales (67%) and Finmeccanica (33%), is a key European player in space telecommunications, navigation, Earth observation, exploration and orbital infrastructures. Thales Alenia Space and Telespazio form the two parent companies’ “Space Alliance”, which offers a complete range of services and solutions. Because of its unrivaled expertise in dual (civil/military) missions, constellations, flexible payloads, altimetry, meteorology and high-resolution optical and radar instruments, Thales Alenia Space is the natural partner to countries that want to expand their space program. The company posted consolidated revenues of 2.1 billion euros in 2015, and has 7,500 employees in eight countries.

IROC Technologies is a French SME established in 2000 as a spin-off of the TIMA/INPG research laboratory. The company is headquartered in Grenoble and has a wholly-owned subsidiary (IROC Technologies Corporation) incorporated in Delaware in 2001.
IROC has an experienced team of 15 people (85% Engineering with Advanced Degrees) and provides solutions and services for analyzing and improving the overall reliability of devices. The company works on topics addressing Functional Reliability, Aging, Process Variability, Low Power/Near-Threshold Computing, High Performance Computing and has a strong historical experience on Single Event Effects
The customers & partners of the companies are providers of reliable technology, components and equipment for communications, high-performance computing, medical, automotive and aero-space applications.
IROC is one of the few trusted TSMC EDA Alliance partners, a member of Mentor Graphics Vanguard Program, a member of the ISO 26262 and JEDEC JESD89* standard development teams and provides reliability (Soft Error Rate) solutions for the customers of major foundries, including TSMC, UMC, GlobalFoundries, STMicroelectronics and SMIC.

Integrated Systems Development S.A. (ISD) is an independent organization established in Greece in 1998. ISD is active in the domain of Integrated Systems of guaranteed quality and performance. It is an R&D organization working with system houses, software houses and integrated circuit manufacturers. Actually ISD acts as an original electronic equipment developer and integrator, providing services ranging from software development for embedded and general purpose platforms, to digital and analog/RF integrated circuit design, memory design, to digital signal processing for embedded/stand-alone applications and PCB design. Moreover ISD is a turn-key solution provider handling all aspects of product definition, design, development, documentation, production and support.