SpaceWire standard and improved wormhole router design

Author

Yi, Dalu ; Yu, Lixin ; Fei, Haidong ; Wang, Xingyou

Author_Institution

Beijing Microelectron. Technol. Inst., Beijing, China

fYear

2012

fDate

3-10 March 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

Fast growth in information technology extends the means of data transfer. Especially in recent years, many more measures have been proposed in order to raise the data rate. SpaceWire is a serial, high-speed, bi-directional, full duplex, point-to-point data transfer protocol, which is defined by ESA (European Space Agency) in 2003. Wormhole routing adopted by SpaceWire reduces router buffer and makes SpaceWire routers suited to be designed as AISCs. However, blocking problem adhered to wormhole routing limits the network throughput seriously. This paper starts with an introduction to the SpaceWire standard. From the angle of ASIC design, the author deeply analyzes what SpaceWire does to improve router´s performance in three aspects. After that, a VLSI design of Spacewire router compliant with the Spacewire standard is presented, and simulation result of this router is provided.

Keywords

VLSI; aerospace computing; aerospace instrumentation; application specific integrated circuits; integrated circuit design; multiprocessor interconnection networks; network routing; protocols; AD 2003; ASIC design; European Space Agency; SpaceWire routers; SpaceWire standard; VLSI design; blocking problem; data rate; improved wormhole router design; information technology; network throughput; point-to-point data transfer protocol; router buffer; router performance; wormhole routing; Clocks; Radiation detectors; Routing; Routing protocols; Switches; Transmitters;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Aerospace Conference, 2012 IEEE

Conference_Location

Big Sky, MT

ISSN

1095-323X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0556-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AERO.2012.6187103

Filename

6187103