The European Space Agency (ESA) is Europe’s gateway to space. Its mission is to shape the development of Europe’s space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world.
Find out more about space activities in our 22 Member States, and understand how ESA works together with their national agencies, institutions and organisations.
Exploring our Solar System and unlocking the secrets of the Universe
Go to topicProtecting life and infrastructure on Earth and in orbit
Go to topicUsing space to benefit citizens and meet future challenges on Earth
Go to topicMaking space accessible and developing the technologies for the future
Go to topicField Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are versatile components that implement a wide range of digital functions and are present in almost all digital electronic units across all ESA missions. The need for competitive European FPGAs that enable flexibility, high performance and miniaturization has been harmonized with agencies and the space industry. This strategic development has been originally defined and co-funded between ESA and CNES.
One of GSTP's most successful activities was to define, design, verify, manufacture and validate the first medium-capacity, high-performance, radiation-hardened re-programmable European FPGA (NG-MEDIUM) and its development kit.
It was the first FPGA of the Big Re-programmable Array for Versatile Environments (BRAVE) FPGA family.
This first BRAVE FPGA provides a competitive solution to develop electronic units for space. The BRAVE FPGAs flexibility through re-programmability, miniaturization and faster performance are key enabler of the Space 4.0.