Our activities
MICROELECTRONICS GROUP
The following list showcases the related ST3LLAR activities of the Microelectronics group.
ACTIVITIES
This section exhibits the research performed by the DMA team in the ST3LLAR framework.
The covered areas by this team are the ones related to provided enhanced radiation resistance or tolerance for non radiation hardened electronic systems.
1 – Design and implementation of a hardware optimized Star Tracker algorithm processing
This work is related to the optimization of some of the typical algorithms needed by Star Tracker devices.
A parallelized technique in order to find the contours of the detected stars on the image is implemented and validated.
2 – Design and implementation of a thermal control over FPGA
This work is related to the development of a remote terminal unit integrated into the FPGA based peripheral of this project hardware. Instead the typical on space usage scenario of use, an external microcontroller, to implement the thermal sampling and control algorithm.
3 – Radiation hardening techniques for an non radiation hardened on design commercially available powerful microprocessor
This work represent the efforts on use a commercial available processor, not intended for space usage, to create a Radiation Hardened or Raditation Tolerant powerful processor system.
The technique used is based on lock step, that is compatible with any processor architecture, but requires at least two processors (or processor cores) executing the same code at same time.
Injection fault tests are performed and results are illustrated.
