SCHEME (Safety Critical Harsh Environment Micro-processing Evolution)

罗尔斯·罗伊斯组建了一个由英国工业界和学术界组成的世界级联盟，以开发用于航空航天和其他恶劣环境的下一代微处理器。为实现净零目标而设计的下一代飞机将需要更复杂、智能、自主和连接的系统，而这些软件支持系统的核心是对网络安全、高完整性处理器的需求。微处理器的设计和制造是复杂的，通常商用现成的汽车和通用微处理器被重新用于航空航天。这种方法存在过时、复杂和设计权衡等问题，会带来长期成本影响。汽车行业最近的经验也表明，现成组件的供应链可能会受到COVID等全球事件的严重不利影响。项目SCHEME（安全关键恶劣环境微处理进化）将开发新一代英国本土、安全关键和网络安全微处理器。开发定制处理器可以降低设计和使用寿命成本，确保供应安全，并为半导体行业面临的全球问题提供保护。该项目将首先开发一种适用于高完整性控制和监测的控制处理器。将开发一种制造和支持解决方案，提供比现成设备更好的过时保护。它还将提供相关的电子、安全和软件工具基础设施，使英国能够加强其在高完整性航空电子设计和制造方面的地位。该项目将建立英国在该领域的国家弹性，使处理器不仅可用于航空航天，还可用于系统在恶劣环境下运行的其他领域。SCHEME将与更广泛的社区合作，以确定和追求开发机会，包括通过微处理器试验支持潜在的采用者。该项目将使英国能够设计和建造对未来社会至关重要的低碳智能系统。该项目部分由英国政府机构，BEIS， ATI和Innovate UK资助。加入劳斯莱斯的还有TT Electronics、Volant Autonomy、Rapita Systems、Adacore、制造技术中心、贝尔法斯特女王大学、布里斯托尔大学、谢菲尔德大学和约克大学。

Rolls-Royce has assembled a world-class consortium of UK industry and academia to develop the next generation of microprocessors for use in aerospace and other harsh environments.The next generation of aircraft, designed to meet net-zero targets, will require more complex, intelligent, autonomous, and connected systems, and at the heart of those software-enabled systems is the need for a cyber-secure, high-integrity processor.Microprocessor design and manufacture is complex, and typically commercial off-the-shelf automotive and general-purpose microprocessors are repurposed for aerospace. That approach has issues of obsolescence, complexity and design trade-offs that have long-term cost implications. Recent experience in the automotive industry has also demonstrated how the supply chain for off-the-shelf components can be significantly and adversely affected by global events such as COVID.Project SCHEME (Safety-Critical Harsh Environment Micro-processing Evolution) will develop a new generation of UK-native, safety critical and cyber-secure microprocessors. Developing a bespoke processor reduces design and through-life costs, ensures security of supply and provides protection from the global issues that face the semiconductor industry.The project will initially develop a control processor suitable for high-integrity control and monitoring. A manufacturing and support solution will be developed that provides better obsolescence protection than is available from off-the-shelf devices. It will also provide an associated electronics, security and software tooling infrastructure to enable the UK to strengthen its position in high-integrity avionics design and manufacturing.This project will build UK national resilience in this area and make the processor available not only to aerospace, but in other areas where systems operate in harsh environments. SCHEME will engage with the wider community to identify and pursue exploitation opportunities, including supporting potential adopters with microprocessor trials. The project will put the UK in a position to design and build the low-carbon, intelligent systems that will be critical to society in the future.The project is partly funded by the UK government agencies, BEIS, ATI, and Innovate UK. Rolls-Royce is joined by TT Electronics, Volant Autonomy, Rapita Systems, Adacore, The Manufacturing Technology Centre, Queen's University Belfast, University of Bristol, University of Sheffield, and University of York.