Conveners
Devices and IP for On-Board Data Processing
- Agustin Fernandez Leon (ESA)
Space market is going change with the emergence of new kind of applications and new kind of business models based on more and more private funding. Space industry need to answer to different kind of challenges, on different kind of market field with at starting the same structure and teams. Indeed on top of more traditional class 1 or 2 projects driven by GEO Operators & Space Agencies, there...
In Space compute intensive applications, the current dilemma we observe is the following: how could one perform very complex and powerful data processing into Space, while:
- ensuring a decent level of radiation tolerance,
- participating to SwaP optimization (Size, Weight & Power, translating here at least in a limited power consumption of the computing platform),
- having either...
NanoXplore is a privately owned fabless company based in France, created by veterans of semiconductor industry with roughly 30 years experience in the design, test and debugging of FPGA cores. That talk will outline NanoXplore Radiation Hardened By Design (RHBD) FPGA solutions and address both DSP and Embedded Processing features from both hardware and software side. A special focus will be...
The increasing interest of deep-space exploration, commercial use of small satellites, and in-situ information value extraction on space systems (e.g. CubeSat constellations, rovers, earth observation satellites) require more on-board data processing (OBDP). There are several reasons to require increased on-board data processing. Space applications, especially constellations and robotic...
On-board processing gained an ever increasing acceptance within the last twenty years. To an increasing extend payload data will be processed, formatted, analysed, compressed and encrypted on-board – new features and functionality will be transferred to the spacecraft. The dramatic augmentation of processing performance even add to this momentum. The functional spectrum spans from motor...
NOGAH space systems pack multiple RC64 processor chips and COTS components, mounted on multiple PCBs, in space-ready enclosures.
RC64 is rad-hard, high-performance, low-power manycore combining 64 DSP cores, large (4 MB) shared memory, a hardware scheduler, and twelve serial links achieving the fastest-ever SpaceFibre data rate. RC64 achieves 16 GFLOPs and 32 fixed-point GMACs,...
Technolution is a technology integrator who deploys multidisciplinary expertise in an effective way to find the best technology solution for its customers. We develop among others high-speed digital signal processing electronics, programmable logic, embedded hardware and software solutions for imaging, video, semiconductor and security applications. In some solutions we (re)use our softcore...
A regenerative payload provides improved performance, reduced latency, support of mesh connection, simplified implementation for Non GEO constellations , and better usability in comparison to basic bent pipe designs.
On the other hand, it may require more processing power on board, in addition to the main problem of future proof design. Namely ensuring that...
For a long time, FFT-processing was avoided in on-board processing, due to the heavy load on general purpose processors. Nowadays there are several FFT IP-cores available for eg the Virtex-5 Xilinx FPGA or independant FFT IP-cores, but most of them have lack of accuracy or have a limited FFT-size.
ESA developed, in co-operation with Astrium D&S and Atmel the SkyFFT ASIC: a FFT-processing...
Embedded GPUs can provide significant computational power at a low-power envelope for large amounts of data. For this reason, they are employed in a wide-range of embedded devices that can benefit from these properties, from handheld devices to autonomous cars to prototype supercomputers. This widespread COTS technology opens a window of opportunity to satisfy the ever increasing needs of...