This document summarizes several projects that STL provided engineering services for, including electronic design, firmware development, and system architecture support. It lists clients such as EBMCE, ABCU, GSTAMIDS, NFIRE, and NASA. For each project, it briefly describes the technical services provided, dates, and STL staff roles like senior designer, consultant, or contractor.
4. Outline
Project
Name
Dates Project
Summary
Technical Services Provided Job Title PAGE
EBMCE 12-16 FBW Flight Control
Motor Control
Electronics DO-254
Process DVMT Ld FW Eng Contractor 5
ABCU 10-11 DO-254 Boom
Control Unit
DO-254 Design Assurance procedures.
Board level redesign, FPGA verification.
SOI-3 Participation. For timely delivery
completion given monetary award.
Sr Design Verification
Contractor
TBD
GSTAMIDS 02-05 Mine Detection
System
Principal Architect /
Designer Consultant
TBD
MSTI-3 94-96 Space Payload
research for MDA.
System Architecture trades, four PWA
consisting of 3 camera PWAs and
Spacecraft I/O PWA with 3 image
processing FPGAs.
6-9
NFIRE 04-06 Space Payload
research for MDA.
Sr Designer
Consultant
10
Hyperspectral
Imaging
Spectrometer
16 Spatial-Scanning
"Push Broom" Demo
for Remote Sensing
using NASA EO-1.
System Architecture support, VHDL code
for high speed multiple access memory
implemented on Alpha Data XRM-ZBT
with Virtex-5.
Sr Algorithm /
Firmware Design
Consultant.
11
STL Clients, Projects & Services
4
5. Electronic Backup Motor Control Electronics
Architecture, partitioning, VHDL code generation, simulation, I&T.
DO-254 compliant design assurance of complex firmware for Xilinx and
LatticeXP2 FPGA devices.
Authoring artifacts including plans, standards, checklists, requirements,
reviews, configuration items, V&V results, troubleshooting, Problem Reports,
Root Cause Analysis.
BLDC Motor Pulse-Based PWM Dead Band Compensator algorithm and
Regenration Current Peak reduction design and development.
LVDT Error Performance Analysis for Position Loop.
Xilinx Spartan 3E/ISE 13.2 and Lattice XP2 Diamond Tool Suite for VHDL
Firmware Design, Mentor QuartaSim, Synplicity, and test benches for test.
Gulfstream series of Airplanes
FCC DO-254 Design Assurance
Parker FBW Flight Control System
STL Clients, Projects & Services 5
6. MSTI-3 Payload with
SWIR, MWIR Sensors
with filters & Visible
Spectrometer,
Integration of optics,
MSTI3 Electronics
Control Module,
filterwheel, gimbals,
servo, IR(2) & Visible
cameras, black body,
cryogenic coolers
Evaluation of low cost
integrated IR &
visible sensors for
theater missile launch
detect. SWIR, MWIR &
Visible camera PWAs,
IR Filter Wheel, Single
telescope , Servo.
MSTI-3 Payload
Electronics
STL Clients, Projects & Services 6
7. Miniature Sensor Technology Insertion
3 (MSTI3) w/o Solar Array
MSTI-3 Launched May 17, 1996 and
reached Sun Synchronous, low Earth
polar orbit.
Main Goal: Study the Earth in medium-
wave and short-wave infrared.
2nd Goal: Demonstrate that a spacecraft
of a high level of complexity and
capability could be designed and built in
a short time, and budget.
Designed for 1 Year Life, it lasted 1.5 yrs.
Orbital Science Pegasus Rocket
Spectrum Astro Satellite
SAIC Payload with STL SDB subcontract
STL Clients, Projects & Services 7
8. MSTI-3 Payload with
SWIR, MWIR Sensors
with filters & Visible
Spectrometer,
Integration of optics,
MSTI3 Electronics
Control Module,
filterwheel, gimbals,
servo, IR(2) & Visible
cameras, black body,
cryogenic coolers
Evaluation of low cost
integrated IR &
visible sensors for
theater missile launch
detect. SWIR, MWIR &
Visible camera PWAs,
IR Filter Wheel, Single
telescope , Servo.
MSTI-3 Payload
Electronics
STL Clients, Projects & Services 8
10. NFIRE
(Near Field Infrared Experiment)
Launched April 4, 2007 on Minatour-1
Designed to distinguish between a
ballistic missile's fiery plume and the
rocket itself. (Missile Defense Agency
(MDA))
STL provides system support and
single PWA and Actel FPGA VME64
PWA Telemetry Link interface to the
MECM Subystem.
HJS Manpower of 1.5 man year (2005-
2006).
Launch April 4, 2007 on Minatour-1
STL Clients, Projects & Services 10
11. Spectral Binning
Algorithm for
simulating Landsat-7
Band Coefficients in
real time using IEEE-
754 standard floating-
point arithmetic.
Remote Sensing
using NASA EO-1,
NGC built, Hyperion
Instrument
using"Band-In-Line"
files.
Memory efficient,
Stream-Parallel
Architecture and
Firmware VHDL
Development for
Alpha Data XRM-ZBT
COTS Board with
Dual Xilinx Virtex-5
devices.
R&D Hyperspectral Imaging Spectrometer
Spatial-Scanning "Push Broom" Demo
STL Clients, Projects & Services 11