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The amount of data produced during space missions has increased significantly in the recent past, while the communication bandwidth from a space vessel to earth has stayed more or less the same. Industry and space agencies are urgently looking for new data processing platforms that extract and compress relevant data on board of a space vessel, to replace the current European rad-hard DSP processor which lacks performance for many applications. In space, occasional extreme radiation levels cause errors in (digital) data or during data processing and special effort goes into making data processing systems resistant to radiation. Combining radiation hardened hardware with fault-tolerant software is the most promising option for radiation-resistant data processing solutions for space. In his talk, Gerard Rauwerda explains techniques for fault-tolerance in many-core systems, which Recore has developed together with European academic institutions in various research projects. He shows how Recore married new concepts for self-repairing reconfigurable chips to proven space concepts (LEON, SpaceWire) in a functional FPGA prototype for space applications for ESA, the European Space Agency. And last but not least, he will look to the future of radiation-resistant many-core data processing platforms and their programmer friendliness.
