Abstract

The SpaceCubeX project is motivated by the need for high performance, modular, and scalable on-board processing to help scientists answer critical 21st century questions about global climate change, air quality, ocean health, and ecosystem dynamics, while adding new capabilities such as low-latency data products for extreme event warnings. These goals translate into on-board processing throughput requirements that are on the order of 100–1,000x more than those of previous Earth Science missions for standard processing, compression, storage, and downhnk operations. To study possible future architectures to achieve these performance requirements, the SpaceCubeX project provides an evolvable testbed and framework that enables a focused design space exploration of candidate hybrid CPU/FPGA/DSP processing architectures. The framework includes ArchGen, an architecture generator tool …

Date

2017

Authors

Andrew G Schmidt, Gabriel Weisz, Matthew French, Thomas Flatley, Carlos Y Villalpando

Conference

2017 IEEE Aerospace Conference

Pages

1-10

Publisher

IEEE