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Date: 30th Jun 2011
JTAG donated tools and support to the
European Student Moon Orbiter project
JTAG Technologies has announced it has donated boundary-scan
hardware, software and technical support to the European
Student Moon Orbiter (ESMO) project. ESMO is funded by the
European Space Agency's Education Office and sees the collaboration
of 19 universities throughout Europe working with UK-based
prime contractor Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd.
JTAG Technologies' donations comprise a boundary-scan controller,
JTAG ProVision application generation software and support
from ALLData (JTAG Technologies' distributor in Italy).
The solutions are to be used by the ESMO project's On-board
Data Handling (OBDH) team, which is based at the University
of Maribor in Slovenia. Team Supporting Professor, Dr. Iztok
Kramberger, comments: "We are planning to have two
boundary-scan chains on the On-Board Computer's processor
cards - one chain for accessing the processor, the other
for accessing an FPGA."
A preliminary design review is scheduled for this summer,
after which work will commence on the development of the
processor cards and the JTAG test environment. Launch of
the ESMO satellite is planned for late 2013 or early 2014
and the mission is to place a spacecraft in orbit around
the moon, photograph the surface and send images back to
Earth.
Peter van den Eijnden, MD of JTAG Technologies, commented:
"We are delighted to be supporting ESMO and, by extension,
rekindling interest in engineering, science and space exploration."
For more information on the OBDH team visit www.esmo.uni-mb.si.
For more information on the European Space Agency visit
www.esa.int (where details of its Education Office and ESMO
can be found).
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