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A Reconfigurable Hybrid Digital Processor for Dual Use Advanced Satellite Communication Missions

Received: 10 November 2018     Accepted: 3 December 2018     Published: 7 January 2019
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Abstract

The continuous evolution of the air interfaces during the satellite lifetime, the risk of a rapid obsolescence of a payload based on on-board processing capabilities are suggesting more and more the adoption of Reconfigurable Software Radio techniques, which can be exploited to adapt the on-board processor to new waveforms, implementing software defined payload configurations; at this aim the current work proposes a new Hybrid Regenerative and Transparent Digital Processor architecture in order to improve the system flexibility and support dual-use satellite missions for civil and military applications, and finally presents some experimental results achieved in a representative end-to-end testbed demonstrator, integrating the Reconfigurable Hybrid Digital Processor.

Published in American Journal of Applied Scientific Research (Volume 4, Issue 4)
DOI 10.11648/j.ajasr.20180404.11
Page(s) 41-51
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Keywords

SatCom, Reconfigurable Software Defined, Reconfigurable Hybrid Digital Processor, Dual-Use, OBP

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  • Domain Observation and Navigation Italy, Thales Alenia Space Italia, Rome, Italy

  • Domain Observation and Navigation Italy, Thales Alenia Space Italia, Rome, Italy

  • Domain Observation and Navigation Italy, Thales Alenia Space Italia, Rome, Italy

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