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AURELIA background experience
Starting from 1998, Aurelia has been a Centre of Competence (official design centre) of TEMIC Semiconductors for DMILL rad-hard technology.
The experience acquired in the design of devices for aerospace applications, allowed Aurelia to sign a collaboration agreement with Aeroflex in 2003, becoming the exclusive Aeroflex Design Centre in Europe till 2006.
During 2004-2005 Aurelia developed an Elliptic Curve Cryptography microprocessor IP with 4-way superscalar 6 pipe RISC architecture, now implemented on an FPGA housed on a PCI cryptographic accelerator board.
Since 2005, in the framework of a European Space Agency contract, Aurelia and CAEN Aerospace have been involved in the development of the Integrated Payload Data Processing and Storage System (IPPM), a real single board compact computer, LEON based, suitable for supporting requirements coming from different Aerospace mission scenarios.
In this line, Aurelia increased its product offer with SpW, CAN and MIL 1553 development boards and the SpW router IP2 implementing a SpW link interface, ECSS-E-50-12A, equipped with
RMAP (draft E) receiver and AMBA AHB master/slave interface.
In collaboration with CAEN Nuclear division, Aurelia has been involved in the design of sophisticated electronic equipment for nuclear and particle physics experiments: ICARUS at Gran Sasso Laboratory, CMS, ATLAS, ALICE, LHCB at CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
Most of the electronic circuits used in these experiments shall work in a very high radiation environment with
high magnetic fields and quite difficult accessibility. In particular, during 2005, Aurelia collaborated to the
development of the readout system for CERN LHC ALICE Time of Flight detector composed of 77 water cooled
crates housing more than 170.000 acquisition channels. The entire system shall be used close to the detector
and will work under moderate radiation and intense magnetic field (5 KGauss).
Aurelia Microelettronica is qualified as Authorised Research Laboratory of the MIUR (Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research) for Electronic Equipment and Systems Construction and Electronics Devices Design
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