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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2023
Filed:
Sep. 17, 2020
United States of America As Represented BY the Administrator of Nasa, Washington, DC (US);
Alessandro Geist, Bethesda, MD (US);
Cody Brewer, Greenbelt, MD (US);
Robin A. Ripley, Greenbelt, MD (US);
Christopher M. Wilson, Greenbelt, MD (US);
Nicholas Franconi, Greenbelt, MD (US);
Gary A. Crum, Silver Spring, MD (US);
David J. Petrick, Severna Park, MD (US);
Thomas P. Flatley, Huntingtown, MD (US);
United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to a single-board processor card configured for use in a 1U CubeSat payload form-factor multi-purpose architecture, including: a field-programmable-gate-array (FPGA) which is reconfigurable in flight; wherein a configuration memory of the FPGA can be scrubbed in flight to correct errors or upsets; and a radiation-hardened monitor (RHM) which provides radiation mitigation and system monitoring of the single-board processor card, and which reconfigures said FPGA during flight, scrubs the configuration memory, and monitors a health of the FPGA. The 1U CubeSat payload form-factor multi-purpose architecture includes a backplane having a plurality of slots, one of the plurality of slots which accommodates the single-board processor card, wherein the backplane routes signals to a plurality of standard-sized processor cards, interchangeably disposed in any of the plurality of slots.