• Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.50-56
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• 2011

During the development of flight software, the processor emulator and satellite simulator are essential tools for software development and verification. SWT/KARI developed the software-based spacecraft simulator based on TSIM-ERC32 processor emulator from Aeroflex Gaisler. But when developing flight software using TSIM-ERC32, there are much limitation for understanding of exact behavior of ERC32 processor, and it is impossible to change or modify the emulator core to develop the satellite simulator. To reslove this problem, this paper presents the development of new cycle-true ERC32 emulator as laysim-erc32 and describes the software development and debugging method on VxWorks/RTEMS RTOS.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.105-113
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• 2011

During the development of flight software, the processor emulator and satellite simulator are essential tools for software development and verification, which can be substituted for the actual hardware. LEO satellites being developed by KARI recently use the MCM-ERC32SC processor for on-board computer (OBC). For the flight software (FSW) development and testing, the software-based spacecraft simulator was developed using TSIM-ERC32 processor emulator from Aeroflex Gaisler. It is needed to get rid of the constraints and dependencies of TSIM-ERC32 processor emulator and to obtain high performance processor emulator to develop full satellite simulator. This paper presents the development of the ERC32 emulator based on open source dynamic translator, QEMU, as the first step. And it describes the software development and testing/debugging on the developed emulator.