Analysis of field programmable gate array alternatives for use in nanosatellites
- Paper number
IAC-10.B4.6B.12
- Author
Mr. William do Nascimento Guareschi, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
- Coauthor
Dr. Nelson Jorge Schuch, Southern Regional Space Research Center - CRS/CCR/INPE - MCT in collaboration with the Space Science Laboratory of Santa Maria - LACESM/CT - UFSM, Brazil
- Coauthor
Dr. Adriano Petry, Southern Regional Space Research Center - CRS/CCR/INPE - MCT in collaboration with the Space Science Laboratory of Santa Maria - LACESM/CT - UFSM, Brazil
- Coauthor
Dr. Andrea Schwertner Charão, Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil
- Coauthor
Mr. Lucas Antunes Tambara, Southern Regional Space Research Center - CRS/CCR/INPE - MCT in collaboration with the Space Science Laboratory of Santa Maria - LACESM/CT - UFSM, Brazil
- Year
2010
- Abstract
Miniaturized satellites require specific design since they present serious constraints, like mass, power supply and volume. Even though simpler than bigger satellites, the electronic parts must be rigorously designed once these devices will be under severe radiation throughout their lifetime, after deployment in the Low Earth Orbit by the launcher vehicle. Nanosatellites space technology implies on development of low costs devices, and the off the shelf products would be a good alternative. Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have become faster, more versatile and cheaper, but still susceptible to Single Event Upset (SEU) over the space environment. The analysis of different devices is needed in order to use FPGAs in Nanosatellites. This work analyzes various FPGAs, considering available tools and documentation, costs, power consumption, quantity of configurable logic blocks (CLBs) and radiation tolerance, which will be applied on the Brazilian CubeSat Project – the NANOSATC-BR. These features are matched with Nanosatellites project restrictions. Preliminary results indicate that few FPGAs can be successful used on Nanosatellites projects.
- Abstract document
- Manuscript document
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