The future of embedded systems at ESA: Towards adaptability and reconfigurability

Luca Fossati, Jorgen Ilstad
2011 2011 NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS)  
Embedded devices used in the space industry have to face stringent requirements imposed by their deployment environment, namely high reliability, limited resources, and challenges in heat dissipation. In addition, to make matters worse, the demand for advanced processing capability is growing steadily to meet future exploration and deep space mission requirements. At the European Space Agency, ongoing studies are focusing the use of reconfigurable and adaptable systems to help finding solutions
more » ... to the aforementioned issues as well as to how reconfigurable systems can aid in mission cost reductions. After giving a general overview of the efforts spent in this direction, this paper presents two concrete examples of on going research activities funded by the European Space Agency.
doi:10.1109/ahs.2011.5963924 dblp:conf/ahs/FossatiI11 fatcat:xpeuo3icgvcsho7zqq2paxqyzq