1. The boot software of the control unit of the near infrared spectrograph of the Euclid space mission: technical specification
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Rafael Toledo-Moreo, Jesús Fernández-Conde, Sebastián Sánchez-Prieto, Jaime Gómez-Sáenz-de-Tejada, David Pérez-Lizán, Carlos Colodro-Conde, Diseño Electrónico y Técnicas de Tratamiento de Señales, and Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad
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2203 Electrónica ,Computer science ,Near infrared ,Control unit ,02 engineering and technology ,Application software ,computer.software_genre ,01 natural sciences ,law.invention ,Software ,0203 mechanical engineering ,law ,Spectrographs ,0103 physical sciences ,Memory management (operating systems) ,Data storage ,010303 astronomy & astrophysics ,Spectrograph ,020301 aerospace & aeronautics ,Instrument control ,Equipment and services ,business.industry ,Photometer ,Embedded system ,Computer data storage ,Operating system ,Electrónica ,business ,computer - Abstract
The Near Infrared Spectrograph and Photometer (NISP) is one of the instruments on board the ESA EUCLID mission. The Boot Software (BSW) is in charge of initialization and communications after a reset occurs at hard- ware level. The Universidad Politecnica de Cartagena and Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias are responsible of the Instrument Control Unit of the NISP (NI-ICU) in the Euclid Consortium. The NI-ICU BSW is developed by Universidad de Alcal´a, and its main functions are: communication with the S/C for memory management, self-tests and start of a patchable Application Software (ASW). This paper presents the NI-ICU BSW status of definition and design at the end of the Technical Specification phase. © (2016) COPYRIGHT Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only. The authors want to acknowledge the contributions provided by the NISP system team of the Euclid Consortium to this work. This work has been supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy under the projects ESP2013-48362-C2-2-P, ESP2014-56869-C2-2-P and ESP2015-69020-C2-2-R, as well as by ERDF funds from the European Commission.
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- 2016