Martian dust devils detector over FPGA

Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems

E.de Lucas¹  M. J.Miguel¹  D.Mozos¹  L.Vázquez¹ 

DOI  :  10.5194/gi-1-23-2012

学科分类：天文学(综合)

来源: Copernicus Publications

【 摘 要 】

Digital applications that must be on-board space missions must comply witha very restrictive set of requirements. These include energy efficiency,small volume and weight, robustness and high performance. Moreover, thesecircuits cannot be repaired in case of error, so they must be reliable orprovide some way to recover from errors. These features make reconfigurablehardware (FPGAs, Field Programmable Gate Arrays) a very suitable technologyto be used in space missions. This paper presents a Martian dust devildetector implemented on an FPGA. The results show that a hardwareimplementation of the algorithm presents very good numbers in terms ofperformance compared with the software version. Moreover, as the amount oftime needed to perform all the computations on the reconfigurable hardware issmall, this hardware can be used most of the time to realize otherapplications.

【 授权许可】

Unknown