In the current space market the increasing systems complexity poses great challenges to architects, designers and verification engineers. Systems requirements are continuously asking more functionality with less power, less resources, less time and cost, forcing suppliers to shrink their schedules. One important aspect that is becoming more and more critical nowadays is a 'first time right' design that can be scalable and adaptable to special needs, leveraging on the reuse of building blocks which are highly configurable and already validated. ;One of these building blocks that may make a real change in the current space market is a microcontroller thanks to their flexibility, the low cost and the great variety of technical solutions these devices may offer.

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PicoSkyFT soft-core processor has been especially designed to address the market needs and at the same time a lack of small soft-core processor and become a man in the middle, between full fledges LEON like processors and complex state machines in overly loaded FPGAs. As mentioned, PicoSkyFT processor is a soft-core, radiation hardened by design and technology independent, which makes it highly valuable element for systems where decrees of FPGAs complexity and increased reusability is important aspect. The PicoSkyFT soft-core processor is the only radiation hardened by design small-core processor in Europe and the processor technology and know-how is solely in European ownership.

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