STAR-Dundee
A manufacturer and supplier of advanced technology for the aerospace industry, providing SpaceWire and SpaceFibre IP cores, test and development equipment, and software for spacecraft data-handling and processing systems. The company specializes in developing and supplying hardware and software products for space missions and works with international space agencies and the broader aerospace sector.
- +44 (0)1382 201 755
- +44 (0)1382 200 793
- STAR House
166 Nethergate
Dundee, Scotland DD1 4EE
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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SPARCv8 Software Development Environment
SPARCv8-SDE
The SPARCv8 Software Development Environment (SPARCv8-SDE) from STAR-Dundee is designed to support the development of software for the SPARC V8 series of processors, SoC devices and FPGA cores targeted for on-board spacecraft. SPARCv8-SDE consists of an all-in-one software development environment that provides great flexibility allowing generic application software development and, through a library of plugins, processor specific software.
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SpaceWire Recorder
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The SpaceWire Recorder is designed to support the validation and debugging of complete SpaceWire systems. Using the advanced SpaceWire technology from STAR-Dundee Ltd and the very latest solid state data storage technology the SpaceWire Recorder offers exceptional SpaceWire recording capabilities.
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SpaceWire EGSE & Device Simulator
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The SpaceWire EGSE & Device Simulator is a programmable hardware unit designed specifically for generating sophisticated test schedules involving precision timing and creating accurate real-time simulations for SpaceWire enabled instruments.
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SpaceWire Physical Layer Tester
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The SpaceWire Physical Layer Tester (SPLT) is a tool designed to test, validate and verify a SpaceWire system across all levels of the SpaceWire standard. Two SpaceWire ports employ a special LVDS interface which allows the transmitted signals to be deliberately and measurably manipulated to test the capability of a unit under test to receive signals of varying quality.
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SpaceWire PXI Mk2
The SpaceWire PXI Mk2 card is a versatile SpaceWire Interface, Router or RMAP Target device. The card is designed to be an efficient host interface to a SpaceWire system or network, by utilising a cPCI or PXI backplane.
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OpenVPX Chassis Platforms
With options for VITA 46/VITA 48 compliant specifications for VPX (with VITA 65 OpenVPX compliant backplanes), Pixus offers complete systems with power supply unit and backplane, fully assembled, pre-wired and tested. With a modular design approach, Pixus can offer virtually unlimited VPX chassis configurations for 3U and 6U boards. The VPX enclosures come in 1U-4U horizontal-mount (for 6U boards), 4U-5U vertical-mount (for 3U cards), and 7U, 9U, and higher chassis (for 6U OpenVPX boards).
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SpaceWire PCI Mk2
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The SpaceWire PCI Mk2 is a 3 SpaceWire port interface device, which can also act as a router, that succeeds the successful SpaceWire PCI-2 card. New features include the introduction of a packet generator in the hardware. This allows the card to generate SpaceWire packets at high speeds without using the host PC’s resources. Similarly, a new packet checker has also been added to the hardware design. The high performance driver boasts a full API which allows the user to control all functions of the card, supporting C and C++. Both the API and board design are common across several other STAR-Dundee devices. This makes it easy and quick to migrate user application software across different platforms. The board also supports field upgrades, such that any future revisions or a requested customisation can be downloaded from the STAR-Dundee website and installed.
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SpaceWire RMAP Tester
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The SpaceWire RMAP Tester is a software test platform that provides the means to validate SpaceWire RMAP target implementations and to test the generic functionality of any unit that relies on the RMAP protocol for its configuration and control.
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SpaceWire-USB Brick Mk3
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The SpaceWire Brick Mk3 is a USB 3.0 (also works with USB 2.0 and USB 1.1) to SpaceWire interface device that is suitable for use in all stages of SpaceWire equipment development: initial SpaceWire evaluation, instrument simulation, control system simulation, unit testing, integration support, and EGSE. The SpaceWire Brick Mk3 provides two SpaceWire interfaces, support for high speed data transfer, the capability to inject various types of errors on demand, the ability to transmit and receive time-codes and act as a time-code master, and comes complete with highly optimised host software for low latency transmission of SpaceWire packets directly to and from the host PC.
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FMC SpaceWire/SpaceFibre Board
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The FMC-SpaceWire/SpaceFibre board is an FPGA Mezzanine Card which is designed to extend the capabilities of an FPGA development board by adding support for SpaceWire and SpaceFibre interfaces. The board has four SpaceWire ports with accompanying status LEDs, and two SpaceFibre ports.
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STAR-Ultra PCIe
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The STAR-Ultra PCIe is a SpaceFibre Multi-Lane interface and link analyser, designed to aid test and development of SpaceFibre equipment. It can transmit and receive SpaceFibre traffic from a host PC at data rates in excess of 10 Gbit/s, and it can record and display SpaceFibre traffic transmitted and received on one SpaceFibre port.
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SpaceWire PXI
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The SpaceWire PXI card is a versatile SpaceWire Interface, Router or RMAP target device. The card is designed to be an efficient host interface to a SpaceWire system or network, by utilising a cPCI or PXI backplane.
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SpaceWire Isolator
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The SpaceWire Isolator is an isolation unit for ground test and integration applications, providing galvanic isolation for two SpaceWire links. Isolation is tested to 60 V with components rated to 100 V and 2500 V max transient voltage.
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SpaceWire PCIe
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The SpaceWire PCI Express (PCIe) board is the latest addition to STAR-Dundee’s SpaceWire interface device family. It provides three SpaceWire interfaces with the optimised host software supporting high bandwidth transmission of SpaceWire packets directly to and from the host PC. The three SpaceWire interfaces of the SpaceWire PCIe are each fully compliant to the SpaceWire standard and operate at up to 300 Mbits/s. Not only an interface device, the SpaceWire PCIe also contains powerful routing capabilities and an RMAP Target. The device can also be used as a router. The router facilitates packets from one SpaceWire port to be routed to another SpaceWire port or into the host PC via the PCIe interface. There are three independent channels from the SpaceWire router to the PCIe interface, so traffic flowing over one port cannot block traffic for another port. In addition there is a separate control channel, so that the host PC is always able to access the control, configuration and status space of the PCIe regardless of the data flow.
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SpaceWire Conformance Tester
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The SpaceWire Conformance Tester connects to a SpaceWire device and, through the host software, executes a variety of tests to check the unit under test’s (UUT) compliance to the SpaceWire Standard. Over 55 tests are conducted across the following levels:
