Sixteenth SpaceWire Working Group meeting

21st PM, 22nd (all day) and 23rd (AM) of March 2011

 

The sixteenth SpaceWire Working Group meeting was held on Monday the 21st (PM), Tuesday the 22nd and Wednesday the 23rd (AM) of March 2011 at ESTEC, followed by a SpW WG Steering Committee meeting on Wednesday the 23rd (PM).

 

The meeting covered specifically the following topics:

 

·         SpW networks used for C&C and High Throughput Data Transfers (SpW-D) (Convenors Ph.Armbruster, ESA/ESTEC & S. Parkes, UoD)

·         SpW Evolutions and Standard Revision (Convenors D. Jameux, ESA/ESTEC & M. Süß, ESA/ESTEC)

·         SpaceWire backplanes (Convenors A. Senior, SEA & M. Nomachi, UoO)

·         SpaceWire – PnP (Convenors G.Rakow, NASA/GSFC & P.Mendham, SciSys)

 

 

In addition, the other regular topics were addressed:

 

 

 

 

Proceedings (B+)

 

 

Day 1: Monday 21 March 2011 (pm)

 

            Welcome and Introduction (Philippe Armbruster, ESA/ESTEC)

 

Session 1:  SpW -D (Convenor Ph. Armbruster, ESA/ESTEC & S. Parkes, UoD)

           

            SpW-D Overview and Trade-offs (Ph.Armbruster, ESA/ESTEC)  

Time Synchronisation in SpW Networks (M.Isomaki, Aeroflex Gaisler)

SpW D Protocol Trade-Off Criteria (S.Parkes, UoD)

SpW-D Baseline Considerations and Proposals (A.Tavoularis, Teletel)

 

Day 2: Tuesday 22 March 2011 (all day)

 

Session 2: SpW Evolutions and Standard revision (Convenors D.Jameux, ESA/ESTEC & M. Süß, ESA/ESTEC)

 

Introduction to SpW Evolutions and Standard revision (M. Süß, ESA/ESTEC)

SpaceWire standard revision (D.Jameux, ESA/ESTEC)

Proposal for Defining Standard Services over SpaceWire (T.Yamada, JAXA)

 

Session 3: SpaceWire related R&D activities (Convenor D.Jameux, ESA/ESTEC)

 

SpaceFibre Very High Speed Link Technology Demonstrator (M. Süß, ESA/ESTEC)

Proposals on SpW Evolution (A. Khakhulin, Energia)

Low Mass SpaceWire (J. Ilstad, ESA/ESTEC)

 

 

Day 3: Wednesday 23 March 2011 (am)

 

Session 4: SpaceWire backplanes (Convenors A. Senior, SEA & M. Nomachi, UoO)

           

Introduction to SpaceWire backplanes (A. Senior, SEA Ltd)

SpaceWire backplane development in Japan (M.Nomachi, UoO)

      SpaceWire backplanes ITT (J. Ilstad, ESA/ESTEC)

      SpaceWire backplanes (A. Senior, SEA Ltd)

SpaceWire Active Backplane from the software user perspective (P.Mendham, SciSys)

 

    

           

Session 5: SpaceWire PnP (Covenors G.Rakow, NASA/GSFC & P.Mendham, SciSys)

 

Introduction by the Convenors to SpW PnP

Presentation and comparison of different approaches to SpW PnP (P. Mendham, SciSys)

 

Presentations on Space PnP Architecture and SpW PnP Protocol (NASA) – please see the Support Documents section below

 

Session 6: Other topics

 

SpaceWire Hand Book (Convenor B. Cook, 4Links)

SpaceWire International Conferences: SpaceWire2011 (San Antonio TX, USA)

 

 

Day 3: Wednesday 23 March (pm)

 

SpW WG Steering Committee Meeting

 

 

Next meeting will be held in ESA/ESTEC on the following days: 6-8 September 2011.

 

 

Support Documents:

 

Minutes of SpW WG meeting 15 Session 3

 

ESA-PhA-SpW-D Requirements and baseline V0-7

 

UoD-SP-SpW-D Protocol Trade-Off Criteria

 

TELETEL SpaceWire-D Baseline Considerations and_Proposals v1

 

ECSS Change Request/Document Improvement Proposal

 

SpaceWire SAPs proposal from SUAI

 

SpaceWire-PnP Review Comments

 

SpW Handbook

 

Space Plug and Play Architecture and SpaceWire from NASA

 

SpaceWire PnP Protocol from NASA

 

Minutes:

 

Minutes of SpW WG meeting 16 Session 32

Attendance list:

List of participants

Contact Person: Maria Brestanska  Tel : +31 71 565 8559  Email : spacewire.secretary@esa.int

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