About Frontgrade Gaisler
Frontgrade Gaisler designs radiation-hardened processors and processor designs for spacecraft, based in Gothenburg, Sweden. Radiation-hardened means built to keep working despite the particle radiation found in space. Its chips include the quad-core GR740 and the GR712RC, built on its LEON SPARC processor cores, and it also licenses a RISC-V core called NOEL. It has delivered computing for harsh environments since 2001, and its processors have flown on missions such as Solar Orbiter, BepiColombo and JUICE. The brand belongs to Frontgrade, which is based in Colorado Springs.
Frontgrade Gaisler was founded in 2001 and is based in Gothenburg, Sweden. It is listed under ASICs, CPUs & RISC-V.
Compute Technologies
- ASICs
What Frontgrade Gaisler works on
ASICs
An ASIC, or application-specific integrated circuit, is a chip designed to do one job or a narrow set of jobs. Its circuits are fixed when the chip is made. A CPU can run any program; an ASIC does what it was designed for and nothing else.
CPUs & RISC-V
A CPU, or central processing unit, is the general-purpose chip that runs a computer. It reads instructions, does arithmetic and logic, and decides what happens next. Every phone, laptop and server has at least one.
