Design and implementation of test equipment for SpaceFibre links: SpaceFibre, short paper

Davalle, Daniele; Leoni, Alessandro; Sterpaio, Luca Dello; Fanucci, Luca

doi:10.1109/spacewire.2016.7771618

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“…A very advanced feature of SHINe is the possibility to connect it in a Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) configuration with IngeniArs SpaceART [15] (see Figure 7). SpaceART [16] is a cutting-edge test equipment for the analysis of SpaceFibre and SpaceWire devices, equipped with two SpaceFibre ports, four SpaceWire ports and an Ethernet port for the connection with the Host Personal Computer (PC).…”

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SHINe: Simulator for Satellite on-Board High-Speed Networks Featuring SpaceFibre and SpaceWire Protocols

Leoni

Nannipieri

Davalle³

et al. 2019

Aerospace

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The continuous innovation of satellite payloads is leading to an increasing demand of data-rate for on-board satellite networks. In particular, modern optical detectors generate and need to transfer data at more than 1 Gbps, a speed that cannot be satisfied with standardized technologies such as SpaceWire. To fill this gap, the European Space Agency (ESA) is supporting the development of a new high-speed link standard, SpaceFibre. SpaceFibre provides a data-rate higher than 6.25 Gbps, together with the possibility to use multiple Virtual Channels running over the same physical link, each one configurable with flexible Quality of Service parameters. These features make a SpaceFibre network very appealing but also complex to set up in order to achieve the desired end-to-end requirements. To help this process, a Simulator for HIgh-speed Network (SHINe) based on the open-source toolkit OMNeT++ has been developed and is presented in this paper. It supports the simulation of SpaceFibre and SpaceWire protocols in order to help both the final steps of the standardization process and the system engineers in the setup and test of new networks. SHINe allows to precisely simulate common network metrics, such as latency and bandwidth usage, and it can be connected to real hardware in a Hardware-in-the-Loop configuration.

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SHINe: Simulator for Satellite on-Board High-Speed Networks Featuring SpaceFibre and SpaceWire Protocols

Leoni

Nannipieri

Davalle³

et al. 2019

Aerospace

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“…In fact, target applications such as SAR imagers can withstand the corruption of a single bit or the loss of a data word. The SpaceFibre CODEC properly works with a maximum Bit Error Rate (BER) of 10 −5 [11]. However, typical BERs for satellite applications are in the order of 10 −10 , which is much lower than the worst case handled by the SpaceFibre protocol.…”

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“…SpaceFibre instead is based on an open standard and could be easily implemented by different entities, increasing its reliability. Even if the standard has not been released yet, a wide range of SpaceFibre based product is available, both as research project or commercial product, from CODEC Intellectual Property (IP) (from IngeniArs [11], ESA [12] and StarDundee [1]) to routing switch (IngeniArs [13] and StarDundee [14]) and network simulator (IngeniArs [15]). Moreover, it has been developed specifically for space applications, resulting in a highly optimised solution.…”

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Design of a Reduced SpaceFibre Interface: An Enabling Technology for Low-Cost Spacecraft High-Speed Data-Handling

Dinelli

Nannipieri

Davalle³

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SpaceFibre is an upcoming on-board high-speed communication protocol for space applications. It has been developed in collaboration with the European Space Agency to answer the growing data-rate requirement of satellite payloads such as Synthetic Aperture Radars or hyper-spectral imagers. SpaceFibre offers a complete set of features (i.e., Fault Detection, Isolation and Recovery, and Quality of Service) that guarantees robust communication at the price of higher complexity. This article proposes an innovative modified implementation of the SpaceFibre standard: R-SpaceFibre. It has been designed to reduce hardware resources while keeping high data-rate capability and flow control. Attention is given to the trade-off between Data link layer complexity reduction and protocol features. The proposed protocol is particularly suitable in scenarios where very low bit error rate is foreseen and data integrity is not critical, for example in imaging instruments. The main advantage is a reduction of more than 40% of logical resources required per single interface. R-SpaceFibre may be a suitable solution for several applications, such as low earth orbit CubeSats, which have strict requirements in terms of available logic resources, mass, volume and cost, and more relaxed constraints in terms of upset immunity.

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SpaceART SpaceWire and SpaceFibre Analyser Real-Time

Marino

Leoni

Sterpaio

et al. 2020

2020 IEEE 7th International Workshop on Metrology for AeroSpace (MetroAeroSpace)

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Design and implementation of test equipment for SpaceFibre links: SpaceFibre, short paper

Cited by 4 publications

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SHINe: Simulator for Satellite on-Board High-Speed Networks Featuring SpaceFibre and SpaceWire Protocols

SHINe: Simulator for Satellite on-Board High-Speed Networks Featuring SpaceFibre and SpaceWire Protocols

Design of a Reduced SpaceFibre Interface: An Enabling Technology for Low-Cost Spacecraft High-Speed Data-Handling

SpaceART SpaceWire and SpaceFibre Analyser Real-Time

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