Speaker
Dr
George Lentaris
(National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
Description
“Quality Evaluation of European New SW for the BRAVE FPGA” (QUEENS-FPGA) is an ongoing ESA activity for the assessment and improvement of the programming tools of the new rad-hard NG-MEDIUM FPGA. Given BRAVE's primary target, i.e., high-performance applications, it becomes imperative to test the tool and device with computationally demanding benchmarks suitable for space missions, such as digital signal and image processing. Therefore, during the past year, an important part of QUEENS' beta testing is devoted to this task. In the current presentation, we give an overview of the procedure followed and some preliminary results. We focus on the evaluation of NanoXmap with respect to Synthesis, Placement, and Routing, when using VHDL algorithms inherited from real Vision-Based Navigation activities. Specifically, we assume FIR filtering, stereo correspondence, and feature extraction algorithms developed for accelerating rover localization and mapping. We follow a methodology to select and tune the benchmarks to fit in the NG-MEDIUM FPGA, while we assess the effectiveness of the tools in each step of the implementation process. Overall, we derive promising results with respect to the possible use of BRAVE in future space missions. Moreover, by stressing the tool with our high-performance benchmarks, QUEENS has already provided useful feedback and contributed in advancing the NanoXmap tool from user perspective.
Primary author
Dr
George Lentaris
(National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
Co-authors
Mr
David Gonzalez-Arjona
(GMV Aerospace and Defence)
Prof.
Dimitrios Soudris
(National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
Mr
Maragos Konstantinos
(National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece)
Mr
Vasileios Leon
(national Technical University of Athens (NTUA), GR)
