Hardware/CubeSat RPi

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This board is to serve an easy to use demonstrator for a CubeSat On-Board Computer (OBC). It hosts a Raspberry Pi Zero and a Microsemi ProASIC3 M1A3PE3000-2FG484I FPGA.

Connectors

Board to board

The inter-board connection is a serial bus with coaxial cables for Tx and Rx lines. These channels are duplified for reasons of security. To this comes a 0 V, a 3.3 V and 5 V power supply.

All the connections are done by coaxial connectors aligned on both sides of the board. This allows to stack the boards with a coaxial spacer tube. There are 6 connectors per side: 2 for the power, 2 for Tx and 2 for Rx. The power lines are common to both sides of the PCB. The Tx and Rx lines on each side of the PCB are independently connected to the FPGA, thus allowing a token ring communication scheme.

Raspberry Pi to FPGA

All Raspberry Pi (RPi) I/O lines are connected to the FPGA. 5 of these I/O are connected to the FPGA programming lines:

  • reset_n
  • TMS
  • TCK
  • TDO
  • TDI

RPi specific I/O are:

  • 3, 5 : I2C 1
  • 4 : GP CLK 0
  • 8, 10 : UART 0
  • 12, 35, 38, 40 : PCM/I2S
  • 19, 21, 23, 24, 26 : SPI 0
  • 27, 28 : I2C EEPROM
  • 32 : PWM 0
  • 33 : PWM 1

Programming

The Raspberry Pi Zero loads its operating system from the SD card.

The FPGA can be programmed either from the JTAG connector or from the Raspberry Pi. One has to make sure that the lines on the Raspberry Pi connector are tri-stated when trying to program the FPGA.

Power supplies

The board is powered from a standard 5 V ± 5% (4.75 V to 5.25 V) as defined for USB. An additional 5 V can be supplied too.

This power supply is used by:

  • the Raspberry Pi which generates a 3.3 V for itself
  • a DC/DC converter which generates a 1.5 V for the FPGA core from the 5 V power supply

The RPi 3.3 V can be used for the FPGA I/O banks through a 0 Ω resistor if there is no 3.3 V power from the inter-board connector.

The FPGA is supplied with:

Name function voltage
GND ground 0 V
GNDQ quiet ground 0 V
VCOMPLA/B/C/D/E/F PLL ground 0 V
VCC core supply 1.5 V
VCCIBx I/O supply 3.3 V
VMVx quiet I/O supply 3.3 V
VCCPLA/B/C/D/E/F PLL supply 1.5 V
VJTAG JTAG supply 3.3 V
VPUMP programming supply 3.3 V
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