Deep Thought
Advanced flight-proven on-board computer for command and data handling and payload processing in any space application.
Technical specifications
- Operating temperature
- -40 C to +85 C
- Dimensions
- 67 x 42 x 7.5 mm
- Mass
- 25 g
- Power supply
- 3.3 V
- Power consumption
- 330 mW average, <500 mW peak
- Operating system
- FreeRTOS-based
- On-board sensors
- Gyroscope, accelerometer, magnetometer, temperature
- Microcontroller
- SAMV71Q21
- Clock speeds
- 32.768 kHz (low power) / 16 MHz (standard)
- Watchdog
- Internal and external
- Memory
- 3 x 1 MiB external FRAM + 4 x 32 MiB external Flash
- Interfaces
- 2x I2C + 1 isolated I2C, 1x RS485, 1x UART, 1x CAN, 1x SPI, 6x PWM, 22x GPIO (4x ADC 12-bit 3.3V), USB, QSPI, JTAG
- Flight heritage
- 5+ CubeSat missions (LASARSat, GRBBeta, Veronika, and more)
About
Deep Thought is an advanced flight-proven on-board computer designed for command and data handling and payload processing in any space application. It is built around a SAMV71Q21 microcontroller with FreeRTOS-based operating system, expanded memory over Eddie, and has flown on 5 or more CubeSat missions.
Documentation
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