SpW WG Mtg #17

Seventeenth SpaceWire Working Group meeting

13th (PM), 14th (all day) and 15th (AM) of December 2011

The seventeenth SpaceWire Working Group meeting was held on Tuesday the 13th (PM), Wednesday the 14th and Thursday the 15th (AM) of December 2011 at ESTEC, followed by a SpW WG Steering Committee meeting on Thursday the 15th (PM).

The meeting covered specifically the following topics:

SpW networks for C&C (SpW-D) (Conveners Ph. Armbruster, ESA/ESTEC & S. Parkes, UoD)

SpW Evolutions (Conveners D. Jameux, ESA/ESTEC & M. Suess, ESA/ESTEC)

SpW Backplanes (Conveners A. Senior, SEA & M. Nomachi, UoO)

SpW Plug-and-Play (Conveners G. Rakow, NASA/GSFC, C. Taylor, ESA/ESTEC, P.Mendham, SciSys)

SpW Deployment and Handbook (Convener, B. Cook, 4Links)

SpW Test, Verification and “Certification” (Convener Y. Sheynin, UoStPg)

SpW International SpaceWire Conferences and Working Group meetings

Proceedings (A)

Day 1: Tuesday 13th December (PM)

Welcome and Introduction (Philippe Armbruster, ESA/ESTEC)

Overview on the Space Avionics Open Interface Architecture (SAVOIR) and role of SpaceWire in this context (Philippe Armbruster, ESA/ESTEC)

Session 1: SpW for C&C (Conveners Ph. Armbruster, ESA/ESTEC and S. Parkes, UoD)

This session was dedicated to SpW-D, support to PUS time distribution, and other Command & Control issues for SpaceWire.

• Comments on SpaceWire-D, Prof. Takahiro Yamada, JAXA/ISAS

• SpaceWire-D, S.Parkes, UoD

• High Accuracy Time Synchronization over SpaceWire Networks, Sandi Habinc, Aeroflex Gaisler AB

• Proposal for SpaceWire-R, Prof. Takahiro Yamada, JAXA/ISAS

Support documents:

• ISC 2011 CCSDS Time Distribution over SpaceWire

Session 2: SpW Evolutions (Convener D. Jameux, ESA/ESTEC) – part I

This session was dedicated to the revision of the current SpaceWire standard and other SpaceWire Evolutions issues such as low-mass SpW cable, SpaceFibre, and SpW-RT.

• SpaceFibre, S.Parkes, UoD

Day 2: Wednesday 14th December (all day)

Session 3: SpW Test, Verification and Certification (Convener Y. Sheynin, UoStPg)

This session was dedicated to the MOST tool (Final Presentation of the “SpaceWire Network Bandwidth Performance Simulation Tool” TRP activity), update on the Protocol Validation System developed for ESA, and other SpW Test, Verification and Certification issues.

• SpW traffic simulator - Final Presentation, Brice Dellandrea & Philippe Fourtier, TAS-F (Cannes)

• SpW traffic simulator – Demo, Loic Parent, TAS-F (Cannes)

• SpW HW/Simulation cross validation (incl. demo), B.Cook, 4Links

• PVS-I and PVS-II, A.Tavoularis, Teletel & K.Marinis, ESA/ESTEC

Support documents:

• MOST - Draft Executive Summary & Final Report

Session 4: System requirements (Convener D. Jameux, ESA/ESTEC)

This session was dedicated to the provision of SpaceWire-related Data Handling system requirements from System Integrators.

• SpW developments for on-board data systems, Olivier Notebaert, Astrium

• Status and needs/concerns vs SpW implementation in TAS space missions, Alain Girard, TAS

Session 2: SpW Evolutions (Convener D. Jameux, ESA/ESTEC) – part II

This session was dedicated to the revision of the current SpaceWire standard and other SpaceWire Evolutions issues such as low-mass SpW cable, SpaceFibre, and SpW-RT.

• SpW ECSS standard revision, D.Jameux, ESA/ESTEC, 10 min

• Early results of the PnP stream of the SpaceWire Evolutions ESA activity, P.Mendham, Bright Ascension

• Early results of the Distributed Interrupts stream of the SpaceWire Evolutions ESA activity, Antonis Tavoularis, Teletel

• Early results of the Half-Duplex stream of the SpaceWire Evolutions ESA activity, Antonis Tavoularis, Teletel

• Early results of the Simplex stream of the SpaceWire Evolutions ESA activity, Antonis Tavoularis, Teletel

• SpW Deployment and Handbook, B. Cook, 4Links

• FP7/SPWRT - Integrated EU and Russian requirements, SpaceWire-RT team (SubMicron & Astrium GmbH)

• FP7/SPWRT - Aims and Baseline Concepts, SpaceWire-RT team (UoD & SUAI)

Support documents:

• SpaceWire handbook (DRAFT - SVN version 23 - December 7, 2011)

Session 5: SpaceWire PnP (Conveners G. Rakow, NASA/GSFC, C. Taylor, ESA/ESTEC, P. Mendham, Bright Ascension)

This session was dedicated to results from PnP-related ESA R&D activities, update from the SOIS-APP group on Plug-and-Play, Electronic Data Sheets, and other SpaceWire PnP related issues.

• Early results of the Network Discovery Protocols ESA activity, Peter Mendham, SciSys/Bright Ascension

• Update on SOIS PnP, Stuart Fowell, SciSys

Session 2: SpW Evolutions (Convener D. Jameux, ESA/ESTEC) – part III

• Energia – ESA joint SpaceWire demonstration (Alexey Khakhulin, Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia (RSCE) Ltd, Dmitry Raszhivin, UoStP SUAI, D. Jameux, ESA/ESTEC)

Day 3: Thursday 15th December (AM)

Session 6: SpW Backplanes (Conveners A. Senior, SEA & M. Nomachi, UoO)

This session aws dedicated to SpaceWire backplane application requirements, technology survey, SpW backplanes for ground systems, and other SpW backplane related issues.

• ESA SpW Backplane activity, Jørgen Ilstad, ESA/ESTEC

• SpW BP for Ground system, Masaharu Nomachi, UoOsaka

• SpaceWire Backplane - Application Requirements, Alan Senior, SEA

• SpaceWire Backplane - Technology Survey, Sanjay Sharma, SEA

10:35 Session 7: Other topics

This session will be dedicated to any other SpaceWire related topics.

• Common Instrument Interface (CII), Benjamin Bornstein, JPL

• SpaceWire Link Isolation, Gil Baterina, Silanna Semiconductor

• Real Time OS for SpaceWire, Masaharu Nomachi, UoOsaka

Support documents:

• An Overview of NASA's Common Instrument Interface (CII)

12:00 Meeting close-out