ESA Microelectronics Section


GR740 User Day on 28. November 2019 at ESTEC, Erasmus Auditorium




“CoRA-RDHC MIDDLEWARE: a software execution platform for CoRA-RDHC on-board computer”


Patricia Lopez Cueva (*)
Maxime GUIMARD(*), Pedro Vallejo Muñoz(*), Arne Samuelsson(+), Martin Åberg(+), Anandhavel Sakthivel(+), Antoine Certain (†), Jean-Luc Poupat(†), Matthieu Couderc(†), Jørgen Ilstad (‡)
(*) Thales Alenia Space, (+) Cobham Gaisler, (†) Airbus Defense and Space France, (‡) European Space Agency, ESTEC, Netherlands

“Compact Reconfigurable Avionics – Reconfigurable Data Handling Core” (CoRA-RDHC) is a TRP R&D study funded by ESA.
The main objective of the whole RDHC activity is to develop a highly reconfigurable On-Board Computer together with its software execution platform allowing versatility during space mission phases using state of the art components: GR740/GR718 and BRAVE NG-MEDIUM FPGAs interconnected using SpaceVPX.
The RDHC Middleware software execution platform provides both classical (Spacewire, UART, OBT…) and reconfiguration data handling services. It runs on RTEMS-5 SMP, embeds low-level drivers, a reconfiguration engine and the CNES PUS library.
The presentation will provide user feedback on the usage of GR740 to handle both reconfigurable NG-MEDIUM FPGA and payload link interaction in the context of the CoRA-RDHC study.


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