STAR-Dundee
Overview
STAR-Dundee is an aerospace engineering company focused on spacecraft on-board data-handling and processing technology. The company delivers a comprehensive range of test and development equipment, chip designs and IP cores to the world's space agencies and international aerospace industry.
STAR-Dundee provides IP cores and products for the Microchip radiation tolerant FPGAs including the RTAX, RTG4 and PolarFire devices including:
- SpaceWire IP Cores
- SpaceFibre IP Cores
- Test and Development Equipment
- High Performance DSP Design Services
STAR-Dundee is a world leader in SpaceWire, a computer network for use onboard spacecraft, which connects together instruments, mass-memory, processors, the downlink telemetry, and other on-board sub-systems. SpaceWire is being used or designed into more than 100 spacecraft. Space missions relying on SpaceWire technology include Earth observation, scientific, exploration and commercial spacecraft. STAR-Dundee chip designs are being used on many of these spacecraft and our test and development equipment is being used during their design, integration and test.
STAR-Dundee in collaboration with the University of Dundee and ESA has developed a new multi-Gbit/s network technology for space applications, called SpaceFibre. SpaceFibre runs over electrical and fibre optic cable and is able to fulfil a wide range of spacecraft onboard communications applications because of its inbuilt quality of service (QoS) and fault detection, isolation and recovery (FDIR) capabilities. The innovative QoS mechanism provides concurrent bandwidth reservation, priority and scheduled QoS. Novel integrated FDIR support provides galvanic isolation, transparent recovery from transient errors, error containment and "Babbling Node" protection. SpaceFibre is backwards compatible with existing SpaceWire equipment at the packet level allowing simple interconnection of SpaceWire devices into a SpaceFibre network. Evaluation, test and development equipment along with IP cores for SpaceFibre interfaces, SpaceFibre routers and SpaceWire to SpaceFibre bridges are available from STAR-Dundee.
STAR-Dundee also designs high performance signal and image processing units such as a feature extraction and tracking chip for the vision-based navigation of planetary landers and a 2GHz bandwidth high resolution FFT based spectrometer.
Available CompanionCore Partner Products (IP Cores):
- SpaceWire Interface
- SpaceWire Router
- SpaceWire Remote Memory Access Protocol (RMAP) Initiator and Target
- SpaceFibre Single-Lane Interface
- SpaceFibre Multi-Lane Interface
- SpaceFibre Single-Lane Router
Standard Deliverables:
- Obfuscated or clear VHDL source code.
- Reference designs for Microchip targets for fast adoption.
- VHDL testbench.
- Comprehensive documentation.
- Support available, provided directly by the STAR-Dundee engineers who developed the IP cores.
Additional Services and Expertise:
SpaceWire and SpaceFibre Test and Development Equipment:
- SpaceWire test and development equipment to support the testing and debugging of SpaceWire based FPGA design, including link analyser, physical layer tester, isolator, interface units and boards, router, conformance tester, traffic recorder, GUI software, API based software to support automated test scripts and LabVIEW interfaces;
- SpaceFibre test and development equipment to support the evaluation and testing of SpaceFibre based FPGA designs, including SpaceFibre interface units and boards, SpaceFibre link analyser, GUI software, API based software to support automated test scripts and LabVIEW interfaces.
High Performance DSP Design Services:
- Custom design services based on STAR-Dundee's proven signal and image processing technologies.
Contact Information:
STAR-Dundee Ltd.
STAR House
166 Nethergate
Dundee, DD1 4EE
Scotland, United Kingdom
Phone: +44 1382 201755
Fax: +44 1382 200793
Email: enquiries@star-dundee.com
Web: www.star-dundee.com
Web (for SpaceWire): www.star-dundee.com/spacewire
Web (for SpaceFibre): www.star-dundee.com/spacefibre
Twitter: @STAR_Dundee
LinkedIn: STAR-Dundee
