Design of a Reduced SpaceFibre Interface: An Enabling Technology for Low-Cost Spacecraft High-Speed Data-Handling
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...
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| author | Gianmarco Dinelli Pietro Nannipieri Daniele Davalle Luca Fanucci |
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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj.art-4ac436fa72e44fbea064ecd4bb39b1fa2022-12-22T00:50:29ZengMDPI AGAerospace2226-43102019-09-016910110.3390/aerospace6090101aerospace6090101Design of a Reduced SpaceFibre Interface: An Enabling Technology for Low-Cost Spacecraft High-Speed Data-HandlingGianmarco Dinelli0Pietro Nannipieri1Daniele Davalle2Luca Fanucci3Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa, 56100 Pisa, ItalyDepartment of Information Engineering, University of Pisa, 56100 Pisa, ItalyIngeniArs s.r.l., 56100 Pisa, ItalyDepartment of Information Engineering, University of Pisa, 56100 Pisa, ItalySpaceFibre 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.https://www.mdpi.com/2226-4310/6/9/101SpaceFibreCubeSatscommunication protocolFPGAdata-handlinghardware optimisationhigh-speed |
| spellingShingle | Gianmarco Dinelli Pietro Nannipieri Daniele Davalle Luca Fanucci Design of a Reduced SpaceFibre Interface: An Enabling Technology for Low-Cost Spacecraft High-Speed Data-Handling Aerospace SpaceFibre CubeSats communication protocol FPGA data-handling hardware optimisation high-speed |
| title | Design of a Reduced SpaceFibre Interface: An Enabling Technology for Low-Cost Spacecraft High-Speed Data-Handling |
| title_full | Design of a Reduced SpaceFibre Interface: An Enabling Technology for Low-Cost Spacecraft High-Speed Data-Handling |
| title_fullStr | Design of a Reduced SpaceFibre Interface: An Enabling Technology for Low-Cost Spacecraft High-Speed Data-Handling |
| title_full_unstemmed | Design of a Reduced SpaceFibre Interface: An Enabling Technology for Low-Cost Spacecraft High-Speed Data-Handling |
| title_short | Design of a Reduced SpaceFibre Interface: An Enabling Technology for Low-Cost Spacecraft High-Speed Data-Handling |
| title_sort | design of a reduced spacefibre interface an enabling technology for low cost spacecraft high speed data handling |
| topic | SpaceFibre CubeSats communication protocol FPGA data-handling hardware optimisation high-speed |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2226-4310/6/9/101 |
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