Peregrine NOVA
A lightweight FADEC solution designed for modern turbine engines, enhancing performance and ensuring optimal efficiency and reliability across applications.
Peregrine NOVA: Advanced Microturbine FADEC
Core Control Technology
Full Authority Digital Control: Delivers precise closed-loop management of fuel, ignition, and auxiliary subsystems for microturbine engines.
Adaptive Architecture: Utilizes proprietary adaptive control algorithms to handle engine-to-engine variations and environmental shifts, ensuring stability in a wide array of conditions.
Deterministic Performance: Built on a high-performance processing architecture designed specifically for deterministic, real-time execution.
Safety & Reliability
Autonomous Recovery: Features automatic in-flight relight and recovery sequences to restore operation after flameouts without external intervention.
Integrated Protection: Continuously monitors spool speed, EGT, and pressures, utilizing built-in logic to prevent overspeed, over-temperature, and combustion instability.
Health Monitoring: Provides real-time assessment of engine condition to support long-term reliability and predictive maintenance.
Integration & Connectivity
Versatile Interfaces: Supports seamless OEM integration via CAN, UART, PWM, and USB, compatible with diverse vehicle architectures without imposing design constraints.
Data Visibility: Includes onboard data logging and real-time telemetry streaming configurable via software for development, testing, and ground station supervision.
Scalable Configuration: Allows for engine-specific calibration and feature tuning without requiring fundamental hardware or software restructuring.
FAQs
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Yes, NOVA is designed to integrate seamlessly with a wide range of commonly used engine hardware. Its architecture supports direct replacement of traditional FADEC units, providing enhanced control while preserving straightforward operation and a polished end-user experience.
If the standard configuration does not fully align with your requirements, NOVA’s hardware and NOVA-SDK software are fully modular, enabling tailored solutions for specific applications without incurring significant additional R&D cost to you.
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The Peregrine NOVA is the only dedicated microturbine development FADEC on the market, designed to break the restrictions of standard, locked-down engine controllers. It is based on a powerful 32-bit microcontroller, allowing for precise management of peripherals and sensors while enabling users to fully optimize their propulsion systems. Here’s what sets the NOVA apart from other solutions:
Open Architecture: Eliminates vendor lock-in, allowing full system control.
Advanced Control: Proprietary control algorithms enable the NOVA to learn about the engine it is controlling in real time and improve it’s control methodology accordingly.
Connectivity: Supports bidirectional communication over CAN-FD, UART, and USB, and unidirectional control over PWM.
Customizable: Programmable with the NOVA-SDK to support user control.
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The standard development version of the NOVA delivers a comprehensive suite of onboard tools. It supports a wide range of hardware configurations, from ignition systems to motor architectures, ensuring compatibility out of the box.
Customization is available. If the standard specifications do not align with your project requirements, our team is ready to collaborate with you to tailor the NOVA for your unique application.
Motor Control: Support for brushed, brushless, or hybrid architectures for starters and pumps is available.
Ignition Compatibility: Can be configured for both spark and hot-surface ignition systems.
Connectivity: Native support for PWM input, CAN-FD, UART, and USB protocols.
Sensor Integration: Onboard pressure transducers, thermocouple readers, and shaft speed sensors.
Expandability: GPIO pins and analog inputs for external pressure transducers and user expandable hardware.