Radiation-hardened computing modules for spacecraft.
MARASA is a software-defined-hardware company for harsh environments: we make reconfigurable analog + digital compute — today as a board, tomorrow as a single trusted, rad-hard chip — so that a platform's capability is defined by the code it loads, not the silicon it launched with.
Two product lines to start. A developer-accessible module priced for university labs and prototyping. A mission-specific module configured by our automated design pipeline for defense programs and commercial constellations.
The space compute stack is a generation behind.
Incumbent rad-hard processors take 5-10 years to develop and ship already obsolete. The BAE RAD750, still the industry workhorse, runs at 266 MIPS on a 2001 architecture. Meanwhile, the proliferated constellation era demands thousands of capable compute nodes operating autonomously in contested environments.
The rad-hard supply chain grows at 5% annually. Satellite demand grows at 28%. The bottleneck shifted from getting to orbit to computing in orbit. We close the gap.
The design pipeline is the moat.
Mission specification in. Verified, optimized module configuration out. Weeks, not the years incumbents require.
Production rules handle component selection and analog-digital topology. Z3 constraint solvers verify radiation tolerance, power budgets, and timing. Optimization engines co-design the FPAA-FPGA signal chain with neuromorphic algorithm targeting.
Every mission shipped adds validated design knowledge to the rule base. The advantage compounds. Competitors starting today face a structural deficit that grows with time.
No one else is doing analog-digital co-design for space compute. No one is bringing neuromorphic inference to rad-hard hardware at the cubesat scale. The intersection is empty because the required expertise - analog IC design, digital FPGA engineering, neuromorphic algorithms, radiation effects, and automated design tooling - rarely coexists. We have it.
Six technical founders.
Backgrounds in national laboratory research, DoD trusted and assured microelectronics, radiation test engineering, neuromorphic computing, evolutionary computation, and space systems. Active security clearances.
Based in Santa Fe, New Mexico within range of Los Alamos, Sandia, and the Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate at Kirtland.
Neuromorphic expert. PhD candidate.
Program coordination.
Environmental analysis.
Radiation modeling.
Algorithm translation.
Compiler development.
Pipeline development.