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kev009today at 9:35 AM1 replyview on HN

Some people are claiming it's the good old RAD750 variant. Is there anything that talks about the actual computer architecture? The linked article is desperately void of technical details.


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u1hcw9nxtoday at 10:45 AM

It's a new (2002) variant of the same RAD750 architecture.

  CPUs:  IBM PowerPC 750FX (Single-core,  900 MHz, 32-bit, radiation hardened) 
  RAM:  256 MB (per processor)
  OS: VxWorks (Real-time OS)
  Network: TTEthernet (Time-Triggered Ethernet) at 1 Gbps
  programming: MISRA C++, flight control laws from Simulink adn MATLAB.