Design of high-speed information channel for satellite test based on serial Rapid I/O

Abstract

With the increasing demand for test data and increasing timeliness requirement of the satellite on-orbit test system, the traditional satellite on-orbit test system exposes the problem of insufficient rate, low efficiency and large software resource overhead during data transmission between units in the system. Aiming at problem stand above, this paper proposes a high-speed transmission channel based on serial Rapid IO (SRIO) protocol to realize data transmission between units of the system. The proposed high-speed data transmission channel uses SRIO protocol and DMA technology, based on the ZYNQ MPSoC, to design the data transmission channel between the information processing unit and the data storage-unit. Finally, we tested two Xilinx Zynq-7000 SoC Devices, and built 4 SRIO channels between boards developed by the laboratory. Under the condition of less software resources, the single-channel transmission speed can reach 4.4Gb/s and the transmission efficiency is over 88%. The result indicates that the proposed channel has the characteristics of high speed, high efficiency, light weight and high reliability.