PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) is a medium-class mission belonging to the European Space Agency (ESA) Cosmic Vision programme. The mission payload is composed of 26 telescopes and cameras which will observe uninterruptedly stars...
We present a proposal for a unified configuration (and status) memory space for SpaceFibre devices that simplifies the management of complex networks and allows automatic node discovery. Aside from mapping all SpaceFibre port status and configuration...
SpaceFibre is the forthcoming technology for very high-speed reliable data links in on-board satellite networks. Thanks to the evolution of detectors, each payload may generate data at very high rates, beyond 1 Gbps, for which there are no standardised...
SpaceFibre is the upcoming European standard for on-board high-speed communications. The need for data-rate beyond 1 Gb/s is already present in space missions, and it is currently fulfilled by non-standard approaches based on Serialiser/Deserialiser...
The presentation analyzes the currently missing features in SpaceFibre, with a special focus about the fulfillment of the OSRA requirements. Some possible solutions are proposed (Time-slot guardian, Wormhole timeout), supported by simulation results.
In this paper, a unique test equipment for SpaceFibre links is presented. The test equipment is realized as an ARM-based embedded architecture. It comprises two SpaceFibre interfaces, two SpaceWire interfaces and both a Gigabit Ethernet port and PCIe...
A complete embedded system implementing a SpaceFibre Link Analyser has been presented. SpaceFibre is the forthcoming standard for on-board satellite communications and there is a strong necessity for a test equipment able to validate the devices that...
A SpaceFibre CODEC fully compliant with the standard draft F3 has been implemented as a previous work. In order to test it, a complete verification environment has been developed using the state-of-the-art verification framework for SystemVerilog, that...
SpaceFibre is the emerging technology for on-board satellite communication. It represents a big improvement with respect to its predecessor SpaceWire, in particular it has a data rate beyond 2Gbps, it includes a Fault Detection Isolation and Recovery...