Mars Rover Perseverance runs Xilinx
 

2020 Rover has computer vision and 18X faster performance

Earlier in May 2020, we had a chance to chat with Minal Sawant, Space System Architect at Xilinx, and learned a lot about the top-notch 20 nm Space-Grade Radiation Tolerant (RT) Kintex UltraScale XQRKU060FPGA. Mars Rover Perseverance has just launched onboard on an Atlas V-541, and it is a crucial part of the Mars 2020 mission.

The Rover Perseverance is expected to land on February 18, 2021, at Jezero Crater, Mars, and is scheduled for a mission duration of at least one Mars year or about 687 Earth days.

What is fascinating about this vehicle is that it is packing 23 cameras, has a mass of 2260 kg, and it is more than twice heavier than the Curiosity Rover from 2011 (889 kg).

The Mars Rover Curiosity that is still going nine years after its launch, packs MAHLI (Imager –XQR2V3000), ChemCam (Remote sensing instruments-XQ2V1000), Electra-Lite (Communications –XQR2V3000) and MALIN (Processor-XQR2V3000). The XQR2V3000, also known as QPro Virtex-II was the industry's first Radiation Hardened Platform FPGA Solution guaranteed total ionizing dose to 200K Rad(si).

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