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Instrument Control Units

DSI ICUs are specialized systems designed to interface directly to a spacecraft instrument and provide control and monitoring on complex subsystems. With an FPGA, the ICU can control and monitor digital and analogue interfaces as well and providing control commands via digital and high-power signals. DSI ICUs can be customized to support your spacecraft instrument, and are adaptable to almost any interface.

Product advantages

Analogue and digital unit control

Reliable control system

Flexible and customizable interfacing

Space efficient design

ICU Features

DSI ICUs are designed to pro­vide high­ly reli­able con­trol of com­plex sys­tems in a ded­i­cat­ed unit for instru­ments and pay­loads. Many types of inter­faces and con­trol and mon­i­tor­ing sig­nals can be pro­vid­ed to meet any cus­tomer need.

 

Fea­tures:

  • Proces­sor-based Design
  • Con­trol of Mul­ti­ple Instru­ments and Pay­loads
  • Mon­i­tor­ing Instru­ment Sen­sors and Teleme­try
  • Con­trol of Dig­i­tal and Ana­logue Instru­ment Sys­tems
  • Com­mand­ing of Instru­ment Oper­a­tion
  • Sin­gle Point Fail­ure Free Design

Specifications

DSI ICUs are extreme­ly flex­i­ble, and can be built to accom­mo­date near­ly any inter­face and con­trol func­tion need­ed by a com­plex instru­ment.

 

Fea­tures:

  • Mech­a­nism Con­trol (e.g. step­per or brush­less motors)
  • Pow­er Pro­vi­sion­ing for instru­ments
  • Con­fig­urable Inter­faces (SpaceWire, MIL-STD-1553B, RS422, Ana­logue mon­i­tor­ing, and more)
  • Vol­ume: Cus­tomiz­able
  • Pow­er Con­sump­tion: Cus­tomiz­able
  • High Reli­a­bil­i­ty: > 0.99

Box level ICU

Option 1 / 2

Avail­able as a ful­ly inde­pen­dent unit in an enclo­sure, ready to be inte­grat­ed in your space­craft

 

Rel­e­vant her­itage:
EnMAP (TRL 9)
CHIME (TRL 5)

Box level ICU

Option 2 / 2

Avail­able as a ful­ly inde­pen­dent unit in an enclo­sure, ready to be inte­grat­ed in your space­craft

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