Hardware/Software FPGA-based Network Emulator for High-speed On-board Communications

Author

Saponara, Sergio ; Insalata, Nicola E L ; Bacchillone, Tony ; Petri, Esa ; Corona, Iacopo Del ; Fanucci, Luca

Author_Institution

Dept. Inf. Eng., Univ. of Pisa, Pisa

fYear

2008

fDate

3-5 Sept. 2008

Firstpage

353

Lastpage

359

Abstract

This paper presents a network emulator for rapid prototyping of SpaceWire Intellectual Property cores. SpaceWire is a fault-tolerant high-throughput standard widely used in space and avionic applications. Thanks to its inherent properties, SpaceWire can be effectively adopted for addressing dependability and bandwidth requirements of forthcoming active safety automotive applications. The proposed platform considers both anti-fuse and SRAM FPGA devices. A four-layer software stack ensures full control of prototype features, batch testing and ease of use.

Keywords

SRAM chips; automotive electronics; avionics; digital communication; fault tolerance; field programmable gate arrays; SRAM FPGA devices; SpaceWire intellectual property cores; active safety automotive; batch testing; fault-tolerant high-throughput standard; hardware/software FPGA-based network emulator; high-speed on-board communications; rapid prototyping; Aerospace electronics; Application software; Automotive applications; Bandwidth; Fault tolerance; Hardware; Intellectual property; Prototypes; Safety; Software prototyping; FPGA; SpaceWire; aerospace electronics; automotive electronics; fault-tolerance; high-speed digital communication; on-board network;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Digital System Design Architectures, Methods and Tools, 2008. DSD '08. 11th EUROMICRO Conference on

Conference_Location

Parma

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3277-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DSD.2008.16

Filename

4669256