Creonic Introduces Microchip FPGAs as Supported Technologies  

Kaiserslautern, Germany, July 8, 2022– Creonic GmbH, the market leader in IP cores for satellite communications, today announced general support for Microchip FPGAs.  IP cores can now be provided for low-power families such as PolarFire® and IGLOO® 2, SoC FPGAs like PolarFire SoC and SmartFusion® 2 SoC and furthermore radiation-tolerant devices such as RT PolarFire and RTG4™.

In particular in space applications, low-power and radiation-tolerant FPGAs are very popular. As such, Microchip FPGAs are widely adopted in this domain. Based on customer demand, Creonic introduced the Microchip tool flow with the Libero® SoC Design Suite, being able to deliver a good deal of its portfolio for the Microchip FPGA ecosystem. Where needed, features like Error Detection and Correction (EDAC) of the built-in SRAM-based RAM blocks are exploited.

Customers benefit from access to the broad IP core portfolio covering standards like CCSDS, DVB-S2/DVB-S2X and DVB-RCS2. These are first choice for satellite communication and further near-earth or deep-space applications. Forward Error Correction (FEC) algorithms covered are Turbo, LDPC, Polar, RS, BCH, and convolutional coding.