Title :
On-Orbit Flight Results from the Reconfigurable Cibola Flight Experiment Satellite (CFESat)
Author :
Caffrey, Michael ; Morgan, Keith ; Roussel-Dupre, Diane ; Robinson, Scott ; Nelson, Anthony ; Salazar, Anthony ; Wirthlin, Michael ; Howes, William ; Richins, Daniel
Author_Institution :
Los Alamos Nat. Lab., Los Alamos, NM, USA
Abstract :
The Cibola Flight Experiment (CFE) is an experimental small satellite developed at the Los Alamos National Laboratory to demonstrate the feasibility of using FPGA-based reconfigurable computing for sensor processing in a space environment. The CFE satellite was launched on March 8, 2007 in low-earth orbit and has operated extremely well since its deployment. The nine Xilinx Virtex FPGAs used in the payload have been used for several high-throughput sensor processing applications and for single-event upset (SEU) monitoring and mitigation. This paper will describe the CFE system and summarize its operational results. In addition, this paper will describe the results from several SEU detection circuits that were performed on the spacecraft.
Keywords :
artificial satellites; field programmable gate arrays; reconfigurable architectures; remote sensing; CFESat; FPGA-based reconfigurable computing; Los Alamos National Laboratory; Xilinx Virtex FPGA; low-earth orbit; on-orbit flight results; payload; reconfigurable cibola flight experiment satellite; sensor processing application; single-event upset mitigation; single-event upset monitoring; spacecraft; Aerospace engineering; Costs; EPROM; Field programmable gate arrays; Laboratories; Payloads; Satellite broadcasting; Single event upset; Space vehicles; USA Councils; FPGA; configurable computing; fault tolerant computing;
Conference_Titel :
Field Programmable Custom Computing Machines, 2009. FCCM '09. 17th IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Napa, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3716-0
DOI :
10.1109/FCCM.2009.22
