{"id":241406,"date":"2016-06-08T08:41:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T12:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=93855cb3125e8364356dae2d18b5dd4d"},"modified":"2016-06-08T08:41:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T12:41:00","slug":"integrated-circuits-on-silicon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=241406","title":{"rendered":"Integrated circuits on silicon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2016\/06\/integrated_circuits_on_silicon\/16025688-1-eng-GB\/Integrated_circuits_on_silicon_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nMultiple integrated circuits at the heart of Europe\u2019s space missions, etched together onto a single piece of silicon.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis 20 cm-diameter wafer contains 35 replicas of five different space chips, each incorporating up to about 10 million transistors or basic circuit switches.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLaid down within a microchip, these designs endow a space mission with the ability to perform various specialised tasks such as data handling, communications processing or attitude control.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTo save money on the high cost of fabrication, various chips designed by different companies and destined for multiple ESA projects are crammed onto the same silicon wafers, etched into place at specialised semiconductor manufacturing plants.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOnce tested for functionality, the chips on the wafer are chopped up and packaged for use, then mounted on printed circuit boards for connection with other microelectronic components aboard a satellite.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSince 2002, ESA\u2019s Microelectronics section has maintained a catalogue of \u2018building blocks\u2019 for chip designs, known as Intellectual Property cores, available to European industry through ESA licence. For more information, check&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Engineering_Technology\/Microelectronics\/About_ESA_IP_Cores\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2016\/06\/integrated_circuits_on_silicon\/16025688-1-eng-GB\/Integrated_circuits_on_silicon_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nMultiple integrated circuits at the heart of Europe&rsquo;s space missions, etched together onto a single piece of silicon.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis 20 cm-diameter wafer contains 35 replicas of five different space chips, each incorporating up to about 10 million transistors or basic circuit switches.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLaid down within a microchip, these designs endow a space mission with the ability to perform various specialised tasks such as data handling, communications processing or attitude control.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTo save money on the high cost of fabrication, various chips designed by different companies and destined for multiple ESA projects are crammed onto the same silicon wafers, etched into place at specialised semiconductor manufacturing plants.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOnce tested for functionality, the chips on the wafer are chopped up and packaged for use, then mounted on printed circuit boards for connection with other microelectronic components aboard a satellite.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSince 2002, ESA&rsquo;s Microelectronics section has maintained a catalogue of &lsquo;building blocks&rsquo; for chip designs, known as Intellectual Property cores, available to European industry through ESA licence. For more information, check&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Engineering_Technology\/Microelectronics\/About_ESA_IP_Cores\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=241406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241407,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241406\/revisions\/241407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=241406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}