As the budget for the space industry is dwindling, a reusable avionics architecture applicable across multiple missions is urgently needed to reduce the development and production costs of flight projects. This paper presents a multi-mission avionics architecture which employs interface standards extensively, so that avionics systems can be built rapidly by assembling subsystems and instruments in a plug-and-play manner. The key feature of this architecture is a "backbone" standard parallel bus which can accommodate various standard interfaces through a repertoire of I/O modules. Hence, specific mission requirements can be met by selecting and integrating the appropriate subsystems and instruments into the system. This architecture can also adopt different "backbone" buses, implement redundant processors, and support distributed processing. An example of the architecture using the MOPS6000 (Miniaturized Optimized Processor for Space-RAD6000) is also described.
A multi-mission space avionics architecture
1996 IEEE Aerospace Applications Conference. Proceedings ; 1 ; 165-176 vol.1
1996-01-01
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A Multi-Mission Space Avionics Architecture
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