Conveners
EDHPC Tutorial: Satellite Radio Frequency payloads and Instruments – Overview and challenges for data and signal processing: Part 1 - Satellite Communication
- Salvatore D'Addio (ESA)
- Max Ghiglione (ESA)
- Adem Coskun (ESA)
EDHPC Tutorial: Satellite Radio Frequency payloads and Instruments – Overview and challenges for data and signal processing: Part 2 - Earth Observation
- Adem Coskun (ESTEC)
- Salvatore D'Addio
- Max Ghiglione (ESA)
Description
Introduction
The implementation of earth observation and telecommunication requirements into digital back-end technology demands an increase in bandwidths, more powerful digital data processing, and higher speed interfaces.
It is nowadays common to see Space-qualified data conversion devices and FPGAs, HSSL capable of converting signals in the GHz range, processing them and transferring them for transmission or further processing of the received data. This allows to move more functions to digital components and an improvement of flexibility from a system perspective.
This tutorial provides and overview of the most employed hardware architectures in radar and telecommunication payloads. It provides an explanation of the major design trade choices that are typically done when defining a radar system, taking into account the constraints from the existing hardware capabilities as well as missions requirements.
The first part of this tutorial will describe the end to end architectures of telecommunication payload, focusing on new requirements related to digital beamforming, regenerative processing and 5G protocols.
The second part of this workshop will describe the end to end architectures of earth observation payloads, in particular SAR, focusing on new requirements for upcoming missions.
Audience
The intended audience for this workshop is space industry professionals that want to understand or reflect on the impacts of digital processing functions in radio frequency payloads. The workshop is aimed in particular to suppliers of equipment and components interested in discussing requirements for upcoming missions.
What will you learn?
The tutorial will give an overview of end-to-end architecture for radio frequency payloads and highlight the design drivers in digital processors.
Outline of hands-on tutorial
This tutorial explores new trends in on-board processing for Radio Frequency Payloads. The main areas of development for upcoming Synthetic Aperture Radar and Telecommunication missions are presented and discussed.
Speakers: Salvatore D'Addio (ESA), Adem Coskun (ESA), Max Ghiglione (ESA)
