Speakers
Prof.
Luca Sterpone
(Politecnico di Torino)Dr
Raoul Grimoldi
(OHB ITALIA)
Description
EUCLID is a cosmology mission part of Cosmic Vision 2015 – 2025 whose prime objective is to study the geometry and the nature of the dark Universe (dark matter and dark energy). The goal of the mission is to investigate the distance-redshift relationship and the evolution of the cosmic structures by measuring shapes and redshifts of distant galaxies. EUCLID space segment will be a space craft placed into an orbit of around L2 with a coverage of 15,000 deg2 in 6.25 years with step and stare observation strategy. Launch is planned for 2020.
EUCLID spacecraft will host two instruments: NISP (Near Infrared Spectrometer Photometer) and VIS (VISble imager). CGS is in charge of the design of the Data Processing Units HW for both NISP and VIS as part of the Italian contribution to EUCLID mission in collaboration with EUCLID Italian Science Team.
Both units make large use of functions implemented in FPGA devices. In particular, the DPU/DCU single unit adopt RTAX and RT3PE Flash-based FPGAs.
In this presentation, we will provide an overview of the design features and characteristics on commercial flash-based technology. Besides, in conjunction with Politecnico di Torino, we will present the radiation hardening strategies adopted and evaluated as well as the radiation aware placement and guard gates introduction insertion.
Primary authors
Prof.
Luca Sterpone
(Politecnico di Torino)
Dr
Raoul Grimoldi
(OHB ITALIA)
