Re:Why Carmakers Can’t Transition to Newer Chips
by tullianus on Saturday October 02, 2021 @04:09PM
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Most SpaceX hardware works this way: off-the-shelf processor, triply redundant, using voting to figure out if one is wrong.
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Re:Why Carmakers Can’t Transition to Newer Chips
by rwj on Saturday October 02, 2021 @07:29PM
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SpaceX is definitely pushing the use of off the shelf components, and good on them, but things will probably be different when they are building rockets that they expect to keep in service for ten years.
Re:Why Carmakers Can’t Transition to Newer Chips
by seanmcdirmid on Saturday October 02, 2021 @07:33PM
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Aren’t most rockets, outside of SpaceX’s ones that can land after launching, single use? Then keeping the same rocket going for 10 years would be a problem unique to spaceX unless we count the space shuttle?
Re:Why Carmakers Can’t Transition to Newer Chips
by m4rtink on Saturday October 02, 2021 @08:25PM
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IIRC Space Shuttle also had multiple voting flight computers as well. :)
Re:Why Carmakers Can’t Transition to Newer Chips
by pas on Sunday October 03, 2021 @07:15PM
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Why would it be different? They can replace the CPUs every few months if they are so worried. Or they can replace only the fault ones.
The hardware doesn't spend that much time in high rad environment, it's not a sat or a rover.