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

fYear

2010

fDate

5-7 July 2010

Firstpage

91

Lastpage

96

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

On-Line Testing Symposium (IOLTS), 2010 IEEE 16th International

Conference_Location

Corfu

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7724-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IOLTS.2010.5560229

Filename

5560229