Design of High-Performance and General-Purpose Satellite Management Unit Based on Rad-Hard Multi-Core SoCand Linux

Since deep space exploration tasks, such as space gravitational wave detection, put forward increasingly higher requirements for the satellite platform, the scale and complexity of the satellite management unit (SMU) software are also increasing, and the trend of intelligentization is showing. It is...

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Main Authors: Lu Li, Junwang He, Dongxiao Xu, Wen Chen, Jinpei Yu, Huawang Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-02-01
Series:Aerospace
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2226-4310/10/2/201
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Summary:Since deep space exploration tasks, such as space gravitational wave detection, put forward increasingly higher requirements for the satellite platform, the scale and complexity of the satellite management unit (SMU) software are also increasing, and the trend of intelligentization is showing. It is difficult for the traditional SMU based on single-core system on chip (SoC) to meet the various requirements brought by the above trends. This paper presents a high-performance general-purpose SMU design. Based on rad-hard multi-core SoC, we configure and tailor Linux, and design an SMU software architecture with three modes. It has the characteristics of high performance, high reliability, general purpose and scalability, which can meet the needs of the SMU of future complex satellites. Finally, through the application experiment in the background of the space gravitational wave detection project, the performance and application prospect of our proposed SMU are demonstrated.
ISSN:2226-4310