Intel chips in on optical modem for DARPA's 'internet of satellites'
Intel has revealed more about its involvement in DARPA's project to build an"internet of satellites" in which the chipmaker will help develop the optical communications subsystem to enable links between satellites.
The Space-Based Adaptive Communications Node program may sound like a pork barrel project, but it is a serious effort to create orbital nodes that can translate information between different satellite networks, with the goal of allowing the various constellations to communicate with each other.Intel, SpaceX, and other specialist companies to help deliver on its vision of enabling seamless communication between military/government and commercial/civil satellite constellations.
Intel was selected for Phase 1 of the program, which appears to comprise three technical areas. Intel's involvement is within Technical Area 2 , along with Arizona State University and II-VI Aerospace and Defense, and covers the design work for a reconfigurable optical modem. This is intended to be capable of support for both current and new communication standards and protocols to deliver the required level of interoperability among satellite constellations.
The optical modem design will comprise three chiplets based on Intel's Agilex FPGA technology, the chipmaker said. These will be integrated using the embedded multi-die interconnect bridge and advanced interface bus packaging technologies into a single multi-chip package , similar to the way Intel intends to deliver itsOf the three chiplets, the main one appears to be a digital signal processor/forward error correction chiplet for low-power, high-speed signal processing.
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