Abstract
This thesis describes a system-on-chip (SoC) architecture for future space mis-
sions. The SoC market for deep-space missions develops slowly and is limited in
features compared to the market of consumer electronics. Where consumers of-
ten cannot keep up with the features which are offered to them and sometimes
even question the need for some of the options that electronics offer them, com-
puter architectures for deep-space missions should fulfill different needs. Space
is a harsh environment which requires SoCs to be shielded from radiation by
hardening techniques. The missions often have a very long life-cycle: it can take
more than fifteen years from the early planning stages to decommissioning of
a satellite platform. The harsh environment, long lifetime and no possibility to
change the hardware after launch together with the fact that mass and energy
are constrained make architecture development for space more challenging
than for consumer electronics.
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Award date | 9 Oct 2013 |
Place of Publication | Enschede |
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Print ISBNs | 978-90-365-0850-6 |
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Publication status | Published - 9 Oct 2013 |
Keywords
- IR-87345
- Signal processing
- Xentium
- Benchmarking
- EWI-23747
- SoC
- computer architectures
- NoC
- METIS-297927