Space Flight Heritage Aethero NxN Edge Computing Module with Zephyr-controlled payload
Aethero NxN Edge Computing Module, the company’s first space-rated computer for computationally-intensive tasks with real time decision-making capability, co-developed with Antmicro and successfully deployed to LEO in a 12-month rapid product development cycle. Running on companion MCUs, Zephyr is responsible for controlling the operation of the on-board computer that in turn runs Linux on a custom Nvidia Jetson Orin NX Baseboard, providing 100 TOPS of compute in space.
On the software side, Antmicro provided the basis of the Linux-based system for the main compute module and Zephyr RTOS-based firmware for the companion MCUs; the system is, as is obviously necessary for space-faring equipment, field-updatable with Antmicro’s open source RDFM framework allowing for delta updates through Aethero’s user portal.
