On Effectiveness of a Message-Driven Confidence-Driven Protocol for Guarded Software Upgrading
In order to accomplish dependable onboard evolution, we develop a methodology which is called guarded software upgrading (GSU).
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In order to accomplish dependable onboard evolution, we develop a methodology which is called guarded software upgrading (GSU).
In this paper, we report our experiences and findings on the design of fault-tolerant bus architecture comprised of two COT buses, the IEEE 1394 and the I***Sup 2***C.
Using COTS products, standards and intellectual properties (IPs) for all the system and component interfaces is a crucial step toward significant reduction of both system cost and development cost, as the COTS interfaces enable other COTS products and IPs to be readily accommodated by the target system architecture.
The evolvable avionics systems such as the X2000 at NASA/JPL are able to have software upgrades during a long-life mission for dependability, performance and functionality improvement.
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The high-performance, scalability and miniaturization requirements together with the power, mass and cost constraints mandate the use of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) components and standards in the X2000 avionics system architecture for deep-space missions.
Future small satellite systems for both Earth observation as well as deep-space exploration are greatly enabled by the technological advances in deep sub-micron microelectronics technologies.
During 1995-1997, NASA's New Millenium Program developed the 3D Space Flight Computer technology for validation on its first Deep-Space 1 mission launced in October 1998.
The New Millennium Program (NMP) Integrated Product Development Team (IPDT) for Microelectronics Systems was planning to validate a newly developed 3D Flight Computer system on its first deep-space flight, DS1, launched in October 1998.
The advanced miniaturization of all the on-board spacecraft functions into a highly integrated, modular, and reliable architecture is a major enabling technology for future deep-space and Earth orbiting science missions.
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With respect to the long-life missions associated with NASA's X2000 Advanced Deep-Space System Development Program, reliability implies a system's continuous operation for many years in an unsurveyed radiation-intense environment.
The long-life deep-space missions associated with NASA's X2000 Advanced Flight Systems Program creates many unprecedented challenges for us.
Advanced packaging technologies such as 3D chip stacking, multichip modules (MCMs), and 3D stacks of MCMs provide opportunities for significant reductions in system mass, volume and power.
Among other challenges from NASA's X2000 Technology Development Program, affordability and miniaturizaton are prominent criteria, which 1) preclude the traditional solutions for mission reliability that rely on customer-built hardware and extensive component/subsystem replication, and 2) call for commercial-of-the-shelf (COTS) based approaches incorporating novel, practical fault tolerance techniques.
Develop and maintain a world class, leading edge capability in Advanced Avionic Systems and Advanced Microelectronics Technologies for future highly integrated, miniaturized, autonomous spacecraft systems for deep-space and Earth orbiting missions.