Learn more about the Motherboard and the C&DH subsystem.
This ICD serves as a series of interfaces that connect or interact with other subsystems.
From the battery management system, we have a high and low we need from the Pic
2 5V regulators that have two logic outputs that are needed 2 3.3V regulators that have two logic outputs that are needed 1 logic monitoring on the rail Prefreably Finch would enjoy one analog on the logic rail
4 digital / logic output 3 analog monitoring rails
Upon future expansion, with MOSFETS, only two extra logic rails would be used.
On the FlatSat, there’s a separate processor for the payload. It communicates with the motherboard over SPI. Payload is the SPI slave.
| Pin | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| MEM_ADDR | MEM_ADDR SPI | Sends us flipped memory addresses. MB needs to concatenate date/time and store in Flash. |
Send a 46-bit encoded signal depicting status:
xxxxx yyyyyyyy,yyyyyyyy z aaaaaaaaaaaa bbbbbbbbbbbb
Technically, the decoding only needs to be done by the ground station. C&DH just needs to concatenate data to the ending.
Using the system’s real-time clock (see Section 19), 40-bits of data are concatenated. (Month, day, hour, minutes, seconds). This is a total of 86 (88)-bits per SEU that are saved into Flash.
Each datum will be appended at the end of the last and the data processor will have to handle parsing.
This data will be timestamped and logged. We will also be doing some data pre-processing with the P21451-1-1-4 standard as part of a secondary experiment.
C&DH will send a 2-bit request. 0b01. Then it will read from Payload the number of data points to collect. Then C&DH will send a read request 0b10 and then read all of the data points 3 * data_size amount of data. This data will be timestamped and logged.
Implement
void Payload_ReceiveData(char[] data)
data - 3-byte String of values from payload, is a MEM_ADDR OP codeCurrently there are no defined API interfaces with the Comms subsystem.
We talk to the beacon over UART.
The comms module is the slave and present an SPI interface to the PIC. And from there, we don’t know how to do control words. They may pull a pin high to indicate there is a message. The comms module has very low memory, so we’ll continually read things into our memory but not deal with it immediately if there are higher priority functions.
C&DH handles communications from a ground station and does a variety of things.