Since years Airbus Defence and Space capitalizes on the advantages of Field Programmable Gate Array Technologies and has accumulated considerable heritage and experiences with it.
The presentation will provide an overview of the application domains and the FPGA devices that address those application fields. Particular consideration will be payed towards the experiences associated with the new...
Modular, reconfigurable spacecraft offer a new approach to extending mission capability and maximising the lifetime of a spacecraft. Future uses of space robotics such as in-orbit construction and servicing allow faulty or obsolete parts of a modular spacecraft to be replaced by servicer spacecraft that dock with their targets and perform upgrades and maintenance. Such manoeuvres will require...
Cobham Gaisler has developed two new processor models. LEON5 is a continuation of the LEON line of SPARC processors and NOEL-V is the first implementation from Cobham Gaisler of the open RISC-V instruction set architecture.
As with earlier generations of processor IP core implementations from Cobham Gaisler, the new processor models target both FPGA and ASIC target technologies. Since the...
STAR-Dundee has extensive experience with demanding applications on radiation tolerant FPGA devices utilising SpaceWire and SpaceFibre. The SpaceFibre Interface Single-Lane and Multi-Lane IP cores have been implemented very efficiently in radiation-tolerant FPGAs utilising the high-speed SerDes integrated in capable devices including the Virtex 5QV, Microchip RTG4 and Xilinx Ultrascale...
Spacechips develops ultra high-throughput on-board processing and transponder products for telecommunication, Earth-Observation, internet and M2M/IoT satellites. We compare and share design-in experiences of the latest ultra deep-submicron space-grade FPGAs and MPSoCs: Xilinx's, 20 nm, Kintex UltraScale KU060, NanoXplore's 28 nm NG-ULTRA and Microchip's 28 RFPolarFire.
Xilinx's KU060 and...
The dilemma of on-board payload data-processing units has not changed for decades: the resolution of remote sensing units is continually increasing so that the data rate is ever-increasing while the downlink bandwidth remains limited. The demand on compact and high-performance data handling and data storage modules is growing rapidly. The design must be scalable and very flexible to meet...
Thales Alenia Space in the UK have developed a modular unit for rapid spacecraft system prototyping based on the Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC. The unit is delivered in Compact PCI (CPCI) form factor and supports a mixture of Space and Terrestrial TM/TC and Data interfaces:
• SpaceWire x 3
• SpaceFibre x 2
• CAN x 2
• 1553 x 2
• RS422 UART x 2
• Gigabit Ethernet x 2
• USB2.0/3.0 x...
Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor (PMSM) control is a field where real-time processing capabilities play a substantial role in the system’s performance. The usual tradeoff for the processing elements amounts to choosing between a DSP or an FPGA, with the latter seen as more complex to develop and maintain.
This tradeoff usually does not hold out against the specific constraints in the...
