Embedded Firmware Development for a Novel CubeSat Gamma-Ray Detector
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| author | Mangan, Joseph Murphy, David Dunwoody, Rachel Doyle, Maeve Ulyanov, Alexey Hanlon, Lorraine Shortt, Brian McBreen, Sheila Emam, Masoud Erkal, Jessica Flanagan, Joe Fontanesi, Gianluca Gloster, Andrew O'Toole, Conor Okosun, Favour RajagopalanNair, Rakhi Reilly, Jack Salmon, Lána Sherwin, Daire Thompson, Joseph Walsh, Sarah de Faoite, Daithí Hibbett, Mike Javaid, Umair Marshall, Fergal McKeown, David O'Connor, William Stanton, Kenneth Wall, Ronan |
| author_facet | Mangan, Joseph Murphy, David Dunwoody, Rachel Doyle, Maeve Ulyanov, Alexey Hanlon, Lorraine Shortt, Brian McBreen, Sheila Emam, Masoud Erkal, Jessica Flanagan, Joe Fontanesi, Gianluca Gloster, Andrew O'Toole, Conor Okosun, Favour RajagopalanNair, Rakhi Reilly, Jack Salmon, Lána Sherwin, Daire Thompson, Joseph Walsh, Sarah de Faoite, Daithí Hibbett, Mike Javaid, Umair Marshall, Fergal McKeown, David O'Connor, William Stanton, Kenneth Wall, Ronan |
| contents | The Gamma-ray Module (GMOD) is an experiment designed for the detection of gamma-ray bursts in low Earth orbit as the principal scientific payload on a 2-U CubeSat, EIRSAT-1. GMOD comprises a cerium bromide scintillator coupled to silicon photomultipliers which are processed and digitised by a bespoke ASIC. Custom firmware on the GMOD motherboard has been designed, implemented and tested for the MSP430 microprocessor which manages the experiment including readout, storage and configuration of the system. The firmware has been verified in a series of experiments testing the response over a realistic range of input detector trigger frequencies from 50Hz to 1kHz for the primary time tagged event (TTE) data. The power consumption and ability of the firmware to successfully receive and transmit the packets to the on-board computer was investigated. The experiment demonstrated less than 1% loss of packets up to 1kHz for the standard transfer mode with the power not exceeding 31mW. The transfer performance and power consumption demonstrated are within the required range of this CubeSat instrument. |
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| spellingShingle | Embedded Firmware Development for a Novel CubeSat Gamma-Ray Detector Mangan, Joseph Murphy, David Dunwoody, Rachel Doyle, Maeve Ulyanov, Alexey Hanlon, Lorraine Shortt, Brian McBreen, Sheila Emam, Masoud Erkal, Jessica Flanagan, Joe Fontanesi, Gianluca Gloster, Andrew O'Toole, Conor Okosun, Favour RajagopalanNair, Rakhi Reilly, Jack Salmon, Lána Sherwin, Daire Thompson, Joseph Walsh, Sarah de Faoite, Daithí Hibbett, Mike Javaid, Umair Marshall, Fergal McKeown, David O'Connor, William Stanton, Kenneth Wall, Ronan Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics The Gamma-ray Module (GMOD) is an experiment designed for the detection of gamma-ray bursts in low Earth orbit as the principal scientific payload on a 2-U CubeSat, EIRSAT-1. GMOD comprises a cerium bromide scintillator coupled to silicon photomultipliers which are processed and digitised by a bespoke ASIC. Custom firmware on the GMOD motherboard has been designed, implemented and tested for the MSP430 microprocessor which manages the experiment including readout, storage and configuration of the system. The firmware has been verified in a series of experiments testing the response over a realistic range of input detector trigger frequencies from 50Hz to 1kHz for the primary time tagged event (TTE) data. The power consumption and ability of the firmware to successfully receive and transmit the packets to the on-board computer was investigated. The experiment demonstrated less than 1% loss of packets up to 1kHz for the standard transfer mode with the power not exceeding 31mW. The transfer performance and power consumption demonstrated are within the required range of this CubeSat instrument. |
| title | Embedded Firmware Development for a Novel CubeSat Gamma-Ray Detector |
| topic | Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.03128 |