Speaker
Mr
David Gonzalez-Arjona
(GMV Aerospace and Defence)
Description
GMV is the prime contractor of QUEENS-FPGA project which stands for “QUality Evaluation of European New SW for brave FPGA”. The BRAVE project supported by ESA and CNES provided very promising European SRAM-based FPGAs for Space, a good roadmap that will allow Europe to avoid restrictions on access to non-European technologies and FPGAs. GMV will present the preliminary conclusions of NG-MEDIUM development environment utilisation based on the experience gained and the results obtained from the use of the NanoXplore tools following the methodology proposed under ESA-founded QUEENS-FPGA in the starting phase of the projetc. The project follows a methodological evaluation. NanoXplore is part of the team solving some bugs found, guiding on the proper use of the tools and implementing suggestions found by the alpha/beta users in the consortium. These users are GMV and NTUA. The synthesis, place&route, bitstream and HW assessment report is obtained by the implementation of a subset of circuits divided into different complexity and challenging benchmark circuits (simple basic structures, interfaces and medium-complex circuits, high-complex designs) besides the porting of existing real space-oriented implementation algorithm by GMV. Comparison of BRAVE FPGA development is performed with respect to other FPGAs consolidated in the space and commercial industry. We used NanoXplore tools following a comparison methodology proposed in the project. Due to the lack of standard benchmarks to assess performance capabilities of FPGA development environments, we proposed a quality assessment methodology based on analysis and comparison of measurable characteristics (metrics) among different FPGA frameworks using equivalent devices in terms of logic resources, performance, technology and radiation-hardness.
Summary
GMV will present the preliminary conclusions of NG-MEIDUM development environment utilisation based on the experience gained and the results obtained from the use of the NanoXplore tools following the methodology proposed under ESA founded QUEENS-FPGA project in the starting phase.
Primary author
Mr
David Gonzalez-Arjona
(GMV Aerospace and Defence)
Co-authors
Dr
George Lentaris
(National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
Mr
Ruben Domingo
(GMV Aerospace and Defence)
