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HW/SW Co-design of the Instrument Control Unit for the Energetic Particle Detector on-board Solar Orbiter

•The Energetic Particle Detector (EPD) is part of the Solar Orbiter ESA mission.•The ICU development has been carried out following a HW/SW co-design approach.•ICU’s on-board software is developed using component-based engineering techniques.•A SystemC fault-injection virtual platform is used in the...

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Published in:Advances in space research 2013-09, Vol.52 (6), p.989-1007
Main Authors: Sánchez, Sebastián, Prieto, Manuel, Polo, Óscar R., Parra, Pablo, da Silva, Antonio, Gutiérrez, Óscar, Castillo, Ronald, Fernández, Javier, Rodríguez-Pacheco, Javier
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Summary:•The Energetic Particle Detector (EPD) is part of the Solar Orbiter ESA mission.•The ICU development has been carried out following a HW/SW co-design approach.•ICU’s on-board software is developed using component-based engineering techniques.•A SystemC fault-injection virtual platform is used in the development cycle. ESA’s medium-class Solar Orbiter mission is conceived to perform a close-up study of our Sun and its inner heliosphere to better understand the behaviour of our star. The mission will provide the clues to discover how the Sun creates and controls the solar wind and thereby affects the environments of all the planets. The spacecraft is equipped with a comprehensive suite of instruments. The Energetic Particle Detector (EPD) is one of the in-situ instruments on-board Solar Orbiter. EPD is composed of five different sensors, all of them sharing the Instrument Control Unit or ICU that is the sole interface with the spacecraft. This paper emphasises on how the hardware/software co-design approach can lead to a decrease in software complexity and highlights the versatility of the toolset that supports the development process. Following a model-driven engineering approach, these tools are capable of generating the high-level code of the software application, as well as of facilitating its configuration control and its deployment on the hardware platforms used in the different stages of the development process. Moreover, the use of the Leon2ViP virtual platform, with fault injection capabilities, allows an early software-before-hardware verification and validation and also a hardware–software co-simulation. The adopted solutions reduce development time without compromising the whole process reliability that is essential to the EPD success.
ISSN:0273-1177
1879-1948
DOI:10.1016/j.asr.2013.05.029