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Flexible, Autonomous X-band TT&C
Recently, we have been involved with the design of an ESA
TRP-funded research project:
Flexible, Autotomous TT&C, (“FAT”) in collaboration with
Zelinda (Ireland) Ltd and Honeywell Aerospace, taking the
concept to TRL4 by building a breadboard. The FAT
employs advanced DSP techniques to enable it to
autonomously detect the modulation scheme and data
rate of uplink transmissions in deep space research (DSSR),
Earth Exploration (EES) and Near Earth Space Research
(NESR) configurations. Adrian led the project whilst still
working at Honeywell, developing the user requirements,
equipment requirements and the overall architecture for
an X-band configuration of the FAT. Later in collaboration
with Zelinda, Adrian developed the FPGA designs for the
autonomous carrier acquisition and Direct Sequence
Spread Spectrum acquisition modules in MATLAB/VHDL
and the application control software written in Java.