Capstone 2010!
Project Description:
MSU is
currently developing a radiation tolerant computer system for the NASA Marshall
Space Flight Center under the Reconfigurable Computing task.
This computer system is implemented on an FPGA and has the ability to
spatially relocated soft processors to avoid and recover from radiation
strikes. A sensor has been developed with provides the XY
location of radiation strikes to the FPGA-based computer. In
this project, the 2-3 student team will design a high speed event
detector circuit which will be able to capture signals coming out of the
radiation sensor and store the information for use by the FPGA-based
computer. The signals coming out of the sensor are pulses as
short as 5ns and can occur within 2ns of each other. The
sensor has 20 signal lines that must be acquired. The event
detector needs to have the ability to capture and store back-to-back radiation
strikes across all 20 lines. The capstone team will need to
provide a design which can meet the above requirements in the most cost
effective manner within a 15 week design cycle. The team must
also develop a way to graphically observe the occurrence of radiation strikes
using a GUI.
Sponsors: Dr. Brock LaMeres and NASA Higher Education
Office
Project Advisor: Dr. Brock LaMeres