https://jorge.querol.org/tags/versal-ai/Versal AIHugoBlox Kit (https://hugoblox.com)en-USFri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://jorge.querol.org/media/sharing.pnghttps://jorge.querol.org/tags/versal-ai/https://jorge.querol.org/project/spaice/Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://jorge.querol.org/project/spaice/<div class="mb-4"> <span class="badge-agency badge-esa">European Space Agency</span> </div> <p><strong>Role:</strong> Vice-Principal Investigator<br> <strong>Funding:</strong> European Space Agency (<strong>ESA ARTES AT – Advanced Technology</strong>) · €500,000 (2021–2025)<br> <strong>Official Page:</strong> <a href="https://www.uni.lu/snt-en/research-projects/spaice/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">uni.lu/snt-en/research-projects/spaice/</a></p> <h3 id="executive-summary">Executive Summary</h3> <p><strong>SPAICE</strong> develops the Artificial Intelligence Satellite Telecommunications Testbed (AISTT), validating onboard satellite signal processing—including adaptive digital beamforming, precoding, and radio-frequency interference (RFI) detection—on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) space-candidate AI accelerators within a closed-loop Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) architecture.</p> <h3 id="hardware-in-the-loop-hil-testbed-architecture">Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) Testbed Architecture</h3> <ul> <li><strong>Onboard AI Accelerators</strong>: <strong>iWave iW-RainboW-G57D (AMD Versal AI Edge <code>VE2302</code> SOM)</strong>, <strong>AMD Versal VCK5000</strong>, and <strong>AMD Versal AI Core VCK190</strong> coupled via high-speed transceivers to <strong>Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC (<code>HiTech Global ZRF-FMC-4A4D</code> / <code>ZCU111</code>)</strong>.</li> <li><strong>AI Training &amp; Synthesis Compute</strong>: <strong>2× Dell Precision 7920T Rack Servers (<code>SPAICEVERSAL</code>, <code>SPAICESERVER</code>)</strong>, each equipped with Dual Intel Xeon Gold 6230 CPUs (80 threads), <strong>512 GB RAM</strong> (1 TB combined), and <strong>Dual NVIDIA RTX A6000 GPUs</strong> (<code>4× RTX A6000</code> total).</li> <li><strong>Precision Power &amp; Latency Profiling</strong>: LAN-controlled <strong>Rohde &amp; Schwarz MXO 3 (<code>MXO3</code>)</strong> oscilloscope and <strong>R&amp;S NMG202</strong> dual-channel power supply measuring real-time inference energy per beam update.</li> </ul> <h3 id="project-details">Project Details</h3> <ul> <li><strong>Funding Agency</strong>: European Space Agency (<strong>ESA ARTES AT</strong>)</li> <li><strong>Budget</strong>: €500,000</li> <li><strong>Duration</strong>: 2021 – 2025</li> <li><strong>Role</strong>: Vice-Principal Investigator</li> </ul> <hr> <p><a href="https://jorge.querol.org/projects/">← Back to All 24 R&amp;D Projects Portfolio</a></p>