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SPACEART® – SpaceWire / SpaceFibre / WizardLink Analyser Real Time

Keywords: API, C++, Configurable trigger, ECSS-E-ST-50-11C, ECSS-E-ST-50-12C, EGSE, Error injection, Ethernet, LabVIEW, On-board satellite communication, Packet generator, PCIe, Real-time analyser, Serial communication link, SpaceFibre, SpaceWire, Test equipment, Very high speed

SpaceART® – SpaceWire/SpaceFibre/WizardLink Analyser Real-Time – is the complete testing solution for high speed links in space applications, supporting SpaceWire (SpW), SpaceFibre (SpFi) standards and WizardLink (WzL) interfaces.

SpaceART® can operate as SpW/SpFi/WzL EGSE, generating, processing and consuming SpW/SpFi/WzL packets in real time, allowing the validation of SpW/SpFi/WzL-based devices at their full bandwidth. The traffic can be analyzed at packet, frame or character level, in order to identify issues at any level in the protocol stack. Additionally, regarding SpFi and WzL, SpaceART® is capable of measuring the eye-diagram to aid in determining problems related to the physical layer.

IngeniArs developed the SpaceART® SpaceWire Sniffer specifically designed to perform link monitoring between two SpW nodes.

SpaceART® key features:

  • 4x SpaceWire interfaces compliant with ECSS-E-ST-50-12C, running up to 400 Mbps configurable by user
  • 2x optional High-Speed Serial Link (HSSL) interfaces can be used to implement either SpaceFibre, compliant with ECSS-E-ST-50-11C, or WizardLink
  • HSSL interfaces support link rate is up to 3.125 Gb/s, configurable by user
  • 8 Virtual Channels per SpaceFibre interface (configurable on request)
  • Options for host PC interface: Gigabit Ethernet, Compact PCIexpress, PCIexpress
  • Real-time packet generation, processing and consumption through PCIe communication
  • Analysis at different levels: packet, frame, character
  • Eye-diagram measurement on HSSL
  • Advanced Error injection/Word replacement capability to facilitate conformance testing of the system under-test
  • 4x user configurable trigger inputs/outputs (SMA)
  • SpaceWire/SpaceFibre bridging
  • Selectable hardware packet generator and consumer to allow the easy saturation of the SpaceFibre link
  • Easy user interface to check the status of each SpaceWire and SpaceFibre link, including standard flags and link/data rate measurement
  • Time-tagging of the received SpW packets
  • Trace memory of 8192 words (or more on request) to analyse protocol-specific features such as flow-control, acknowledgement, frame re-transmission
  • Easy-to-use, yet powerful graphical user interface
  • Programmable via software API for test automation and advanced processing

Key features

 
  • SpaceWire/SpaceFibre bridging
  • Selectable hardware packet generator and consumer to allow the easy saturation of the SpaceFibre link
  • Advanced Error injection/Word replacement capability to facilitate conformance testing of the system under-test
  • Programmable via software API for test automation and advanced processing
  • Easy user interface to check the status of each SpaceWire and SpaceFibre link (including standard flags and link/data rate measurement)
  • Trace memory of 8192 words (or more on request) to analyse protocol-specific features such as: flow-control; acknowledgement; frame re-transmission
  • 4x SpaceWire interfaces compliant with ECSS-E-ST-50-12C running up to 400 Mb/s configurable by user
  • 2x optional High-Speed Serial Link (HSSL) interfaces can be used to implement either SpaceFibre (compliant with ECSS-E-ST-50-11C) or WizardLink
  • HSSL interfaces support link rate is up to 3.125 Gb/s configurable by user
  • 8 Virtual Channels per SpaceFibre interface (configurable on request)
  • Options for host PC interface: Gigabit Ethernet / Compact PCIexpress / PCI express
  • Real-time packet generation / processing / consumption through PCIe communication
  • 4x user configurable trigger inputs/outputs (SMA)
  • Time-tagging of the received SpW packets
  • Easy-to-use yet powerful graphical user interface

Other information

Technologies/Applications

  • SpaceFibre
  • SpaceWire
  • WizardLink

Competencies

  • FPGA/ASIC design
  • Verification
  • Software design (system modelling)

Downloads

SpaceART Brochure
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