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 Microsemi radiation tolerant FPGAs including the RTAX and RTG4 devices including:
- SpaceWire IP Cores
- SpaceFibre IP Cores
- High Performance DSP Design Services
- Test and Development Equipment
See Products for more details.
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 SpaceFibre 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 like a feature extraction and tracking chip for the vision-based navigation of planetary landers and a 2GHz bandwidth high resolution FFT based spectrometer.
For additional information, contact STAR-Dundee at:
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
Products
Products and Services
STAR-Dundee provides a complete range of SpaceWire and SpaceFibre IP cores for the Microsemi radiation tolerant FPGAs including the RTAX and RTG4 devices.
SpaceWire IP Cores:
- SpaceWire CODEC Including a core optimized for the RTG4 FPGA;
- SpaceWire Remote Memory Access Protocol (RMAP) Target;
- SpaceWire RMAP Initiator;
- SpaceWire Router.
SpaceFibre IP Cores:
- SpaceFibre Interface for the RTAX using an external SerDes device (e.g. TLK2711);
- SpaceFibre Instrument Interface design for the RTAX, a design with two virtual channels and an optimized footprint for this type of application;
- SpaceFibre Interface for the RTG4;
- SpaceFibre Router for the RTG4 with configurable number of SpaceFibre ports;
- SpaceWire to SpaceFibre Bridge for the RTG4;
- Multi-lane SpaceFibre Interface for the RTG4 giving data rates up to 40 Gbits/s.
High Performance DSP Design Services:
- Custom design services based on STAR-Dundee's proven signal and image processing technologies.
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 drivers;
- RTG4 PXI Express board with 4 SpaceWire ports;
- RTG4 PXI Express board with 12 SpaceWire ports;
- SpaceFibre test and development equipment to support the evaluation and testing of SpaceFibre based FPGA designs, including SpaceFibre USB3.0 interface, SpaceFibre link analyser, SpaceFibre PXI interface boards and SpaceWire to SpaceFibre Bridge PXI board;
- RTG4 PXI Express board with 4 SpaceFibre ports;
- RTG4 PXI Express board with 4 SpaceWire and eight SpaceFibre ports;
- RTG4 PXI Express development board with configurable number of SpaceWire and/or SpaceFibre interfaces on the front panel.
For information about pricing and obtaining products or services, please contact STAR-Dundee directly:
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
