European efforts to boost competitiveness in the sector of space services promote the research and development of advanced software and hardware solutions. The EU-funded HERMES project contributes to the effort by qualifying radiation-hardened, high-performance programmable microprocessors, and by developing a software ecosystem that facilitates the deployment of complex applications on such platforms. The main objectives of the project include reaching a technology readiness level of 6 (i.e., validated and demonstrated in relevant environment) for the rad-hard NG-ULTRA FPGA with its ceramic hermetic package CGA 1752, developed within projects of the European Space Agency, French National Centre for Space Studies and the European Union. An equally important share of the project is dedicated to the development and validation of tools that support multicore software programming and FPGA acceleration, including Bambu for High-Level Synthesis and the XtratuM hypervisor with a level one boot loader for virtualization.

翻译：欧洲为提升空间服务领域竞争力而进行的努力，正推动先进软硬件解决方案的研发。欧盟资助的HERMES项目通过认证抗辐射高性能可编程微处理器，并开发便于在此类平台部署复杂应用的软件生态系统，为这一进程做出贡献。项目主要目标包括：将欧洲航天局、法国国家空间研究中心及欧盟联合项目研制的抗辐射NG-ULTRA现场可编程门阵列（FPGA）及其陶瓷气密封装CGA 1752，提升至技术成熟度6级（即在相关环境中完成验证与演示）。项目同等重要的部分聚焦于支持多核软件编程及FPGA加速的工具开发与验证，涵盖面向高层次综合的Bambu框架，以及集成一级引导加载程序实现虚拟化功能的XtratuM虚拟机监控器。