<p>Bengaluru: ISRO's Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre and Semiconductor Laboratory (SCL), Chandigarh have jointly developed 32-bit Microprocessors -- Vikram 3201 and Kalpana 3201-- for space applications, the space agency has said.</p>.<p>Vikram 3201 is the first fully Indian-made 32-bit microprocessor qualified for use in the harsh environmental conditions of launch vehicles. The processor was fabricated at the 180nm (nanometer) CMOS (Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor) semiconductor fab of SCL.</p>.<p>This processor is an advanced version of the indigenously designed 16-bit Vikram 1601 microprocessor, which has been operating in the avionics system of ISRO's launch vehicles since 2009, ISRO said in a statement released late on Saturday.</p>.<p>A "Make-in-India" version of the Vikram 1601 processor was subsequently inducted in 2016 after the 180nm semiconductor fab was established at SCL, the statement said.</p>.ISRO conducts flight acceptance hot test of Cryogenic Engine for LVM3-M6 Mission.<p>Kalpana 3201 is a 32-bit SPARC V8 (Scalable Processor ARChitecture, version 8) RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) microprocessor and is based on the IEEE 1754 Instruction Set Architecture, the space agency said.</p>.<p>This microprocessor has been designed to be compatible with open-source software toolsets along with in-house developed simulators and IDE (Integrated Development Environment), and has been tested with flight software, it said.</p>.<p>According to ISRO, Vikram 3201 and Vikram 1601 have a custom Instruction Set Architecture, with floating-point computation capability and high-level language support for the Ada language.</p>.<p>All the software tools such as the Ada compiler, assembler, linker, simulator along with Integrated Development Environment (IDE) are developed in-house by ISRO, it said, a C language compiler is also under development for providing more flexibility to users in other domains.</p>.<p>This is the first of its kind in India and has enabled 'Atmanirbharata' in the area of high-reliability microprocessors and onboard computers for navigation, guidance and control of launch vehicles, it said.</p>.<p>The initial lot of Vikram 3201 devices was successfully validated in space in the Mission Management Computer of the PSLV Orbital Experimental Module (POEM-4) in the PSLV-C60 mission, it added.</p>.<p>The first production lots of the 32-bit microprocessors -- Vikram 3201 and Kalpana 3201 -- were recently handed over to V Narayanan, Secretary, DOS /Chairman, ISRO by S Krishnan, Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).</p>.<p>Four other devices that were jointly developed with SCL were also handed over towards significant miniaturisation of the launch vehicle Avionics system.</p>.<p>This includes two versions of a Reconfigurable Data Acquisition System (RDAS) integrating multiple indigenously designed 24-bit Sigma-Delta Analog to Digital Converters on a single chip along with a Relay driver Integrated Circuit, and a Multi-Channel Low Drop-out Regulator Integrated Circuit for high-reliability applications, it said.</p>.<p>An MoU was also signed between SCL & Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre of ISRO for the development and delivery of miniaturized unsteady pressure sensors for measuring dynamic pressure in wind tunnels, the space agency added. </p>
<p>Bengaluru: ISRO's Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre and Semiconductor Laboratory (SCL), Chandigarh have jointly developed 32-bit Microprocessors -- Vikram 3201 and Kalpana 3201-- for space applications, the space agency has said.</p>.<p>Vikram 3201 is the first fully Indian-made 32-bit microprocessor qualified for use in the harsh environmental conditions of launch vehicles. The processor was fabricated at the 180nm (nanometer) CMOS (Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor) semiconductor fab of SCL.</p>.<p>This processor is an advanced version of the indigenously designed 16-bit Vikram 1601 microprocessor, which has been operating in the avionics system of ISRO's launch vehicles since 2009, ISRO said in a statement released late on Saturday.</p>.<p>A "Make-in-India" version of the Vikram 1601 processor was subsequently inducted in 2016 after the 180nm semiconductor fab was established at SCL, the statement said.</p>.ISRO conducts flight acceptance hot test of Cryogenic Engine for LVM3-M6 Mission.<p>Kalpana 3201 is a 32-bit SPARC V8 (Scalable Processor ARChitecture, version 8) RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) microprocessor and is based on the IEEE 1754 Instruction Set Architecture, the space agency said.</p>.<p>This microprocessor has been designed to be compatible with open-source software toolsets along with in-house developed simulators and IDE (Integrated Development Environment), and has been tested with flight software, it said.</p>.<p>According to ISRO, Vikram 3201 and Vikram 1601 have a custom Instruction Set Architecture, with floating-point computation capability and high-level language support for the Ada language.</p>.<p>All the software tools such as the Ada compiler, assembler, linker, simulator along with Integrated Development Environment (IDE) are developed in-house by ISRO, it said, a C language compiler is also under development for providing more flexibility to users in other domains.</p>.<p>This is the first of its kind in India and has enabled 'Atmanirbharata' in the area of high-reliability microprocessors and onboard computers for navigation, guidance and control of launch vehicles, it said.</p>.<p>The initial lot of Vikram 3201 devices was successfully validated in space in the Mission Management Computer of the PSLV Orbital Experimental Module (POEM-4) in the PSLV-C60 mission, it added.</p>.<p>The first production lots of the 32-bit microprocessors -- Vikram 3201 and Kalpana 3201 -- were recently handed over to V Narayanan, Secretary, DOS /Chairman, ISRO by S Krishnan, Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).</p>.<p>Four other devices that were jointly developed with SCL were also handed over towards significant miniaturisation of the launch vehicle Avionics system.</p>.<p>This includes two versions of a Reconfigurable Data Acquisition System (RDAS) integrating multiple indigenously designed 24-bit Sigma-Delta Analog to Digital Converters on a single chip along with a Relay driver Integrated Circuit, and a Multi-Channel Low Drop-out Regulator Integrated Circuit for high-reliability applications, it said.</p>.<p>An MoU was also signed between SCL & Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre of ISRO for the development and delivery of miniaturized unsteady pressure sensors for measuring dynamic pressure in wind tunnels, the space agency added. </p>