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Re: [AVR-Chat] Re: aviation use of atmega's

2012-01-26 by David Kelly

On Jan 26, 2012, at 9:35 AM, Alex A wrote:

> Atmel does have some Rad Hard processors good from -55C to 125C but these are 32-bit SPARC V8.  There are also the FPGAs and ASICs for the military and avionics but those are probably a bit of overkill.

A very common way to fly a fully-testable rad-hard CPU is to load it in an FPGA. Maybe hundreds or thousands of dollars each, but its a workable solution. Sometimes one does what one has to do to get the job done.

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