CNU/NASA FPGA Collaboration

This project is revolves around the design of a digital processing system for use in earth orbiting satellites used to detect water in soil. This information is very useful in climate and weather prediction. A team of eight CNU engineering students are in the process of designing a field programmable gate array (FPGA) to perform digital filtering, correlation and accumulation of data received by the satellite's antennae. Students are implementing a pipelined architecture using Xilinx FPGAs. Students will simulate and test their design and study the migration path to a radiation hardened implementation. Two NASA engineerings are working closely with the CNU students on this project.