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Entry  24 Sep 2018, Devin Burke, Forum, Implementing MIDAS on a Satellite 
    Reply  25 Sep 2018, Stefan Ritt, Forum, Implementing MIDAS on a Satellite 
       Reply  25 Sep 2018, Devin Burke, Forum, Implementing MIDAS on a Satellite 
          Reply  26 Dec 2018, Konstantin Olchanski, Forum, Implementing MIDAS on a Satellite 
Message ID: 1401     Entry time: 25 Sep 2018     In reply to: 1396     Reply to this: 1402
Author: Stefan Ritt 
Topic: Forum 
Subject: Implementing MIDAS on a Satellite 
> Hello Everybody,
> 
> I am a member of a satellite team with a scientific payload and I am considering
> coordinating the payload using MIDAS. This looks to be challenging since MIDAS
> would be implemented on an Xilinx Spartan 6 FPGA with minimal hardware
> resources. The idea would be to install a soft processor on the Spartan 6 and
> run MIDAS through UCLinux either on the FPGA or boot it from SPI Flash. Does
> anybody have any comments on how feasible this would be or perhaps have
> experience implementing a similar system?
> 
> -Devin

While some people successfully implemented a midas *client* in an FPGA softcore, the full midas 
backend would probably not fit into a Spartan 6. Having done some FPGA programming and 
working on satellites, I doubt that midas would be well suited for such an environment. It's 
probably some kind of overkill. The complete GUI is likely useless since you want to minimize your 
communication load on the satellite link.

Stefan
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