OPS-SAT: How will commercial FPGAs cope in space?

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• Shane Fleming and Felix Winterstein (Imperial College)
• Wednesday 07 May 2014, 11:00-12:00
• Level 9 Mahanakorn Lab., EE Dept..

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This talk will discuss an adaptive Fault Detection Isolation and Recovery (FDIR) experiment set to run aboard the ESA OPS -SAT mission. In this mission a CubeSat using commercial off-the-shelf components, including four Altera CycloneV SoCs, will be launched into a low Earth orbit (LEO) in order to investigate novel approaches to mission control systems. Reprogrammable FPG As are desirable for space applications as they can be updated while deployed, however they are also particularly susceptible to radiation effects as single event upsets (SEUs) in the configuration memory will cause undesired modifications to the circuit. Our experiment will demonstrate novel strategies for the recovery from SEU -induced faults making explicit use of the tightly coupled reconfigurable logic and the hard processor cores in the heterogeneous SoC devices. The talk will start by looking at the nature of the mission and the available resources for experimenters. Then we will move onto the experiments and measurements we plan to make, along with the current progress of our experimental adaptive FDIR setup. Finally we will examine what needs to be completed and investigated by the launch date in 2016.

This talk is part of the CAS Talks series.

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