In-house Low Power Flight Computer for Cubesats

Completed TRL 3 (started at 3, targeting 4)

Description

Design and build a board with configurable FPGA and low power soft core processor (ARM Cortex M1) Test out design with hardware in the loop (HWIL) testing on attitude control system (ACS) components with a variety of interface protocols and a simple ACS algorithm Have radiation effects group look at various components of design and give input

Details

Technology area	Flight Computing and Avionics > Avionics Component Technologies > High-Performance Field-Programmable Gate Arrays
Program	Center Independent Research & Development: GSFC IRAD (GSFC IRAD)
Lead organization	Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
Start date	2011-10-01
End date	2012-09-30

Project contacts

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Dwayne A Powell — dwayne.a.powell@nasa.gov
Peter M Hughes — peter.m.hughes@nasa.gov
Scott E Heatwole — scott.e.heatwole@nasa.gov
Christopher F Lewis — christopher.f.lewis@nasa.gov
Kenneth E Hall — kenneth.e.hall@nasa.gov

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