Speaker
Description
The METASAT Horizon Europe project, funded by the European Commission and started in January 2023, will enable model-based design methodologies in order to manage the complexity of upcoming parallel hardware and software for on-board data processing. As a representative, qualifiable and mixed criticality high performance platform for on-board processing, METASAT designs a multicore platform based on FrontGrade Gaisler's NOEL-V featuring accelerators prototyped on an FPGA. This includes both the SPARROW AI SIMD (Single Instruction/Multiple
Data) accelerator tightly integrated with the CPU, as well as a GPU. All hardware components of the METASAT platform will be open source and based on the RISC-V open ISA. At the same time, the METASAT platform will provide a qualifiable software stack to be used with its complex hardware, based on RTEMS SMP and the XtratuM hypervisor.
In this presentation, we will provide an overview of the platform architecture as well as preliminary implementation decisions, current development status and early performance results.
