Title :
A framework to support the design of COTS-based reliable space computers for on-board data handling
Author :
Campagna, S. ; Violante, M.
Author_Institution :
Politec. di Torino, Torino, Italy
Abstract :
To cope with the ever-growing demand for computing power, the space community is working for introducing Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) components in future space missions. As COTS components are not designed for working in such a hostile environment like space, suitable fault detection, isolation and recovery strategies are needed to guarantee the dependability of the system using COTS components, along with a part selection procedure to assure the proper level of quality. This paper describes a framework to automate the generation of a reliable architecture for data handling computers for space applications.
Keywords :
astronomy computing; data handling; fault tolerant computing; COTS-based reliable space computers; computing power; fault detection; fault isolation; fault recovery; hostile environment; on-board data handling; part selection; space application; space community; space mission; system dependability; Computer architecture; Fault tolerance; Fault tolerant systems; Hardware; Program processors; Registers; COTS; dependability; fault-tolerance; reliability; space applications;
Conference_Titel :
On-Line Testing Symposium (IOLTS), 2010 IEEE 16th International
Conference_Location :
Corfu
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7724-1
DOI :
10.1109/IOLTS.2010.5560229
