"Space Tech Expo Europe 2023 is running full-speed and the two first days were full of technical conversations and new business contacts" - reports Dr. Artur Jutman, CEO of Testonica.


He adds that "the space segment companies can significantly benefit from employing our test and measurement framework, which has found a wide-spread use in terrestrial applications pushing testing and troubleshooting costs down for high-performance product owners and manufacturers".

 

The Quick Instruments framework is deployed into an on-board FPGA device populating it with T&M instrumentation targeting all on-board buses and peripherals as well as external communication interfaces, thus converting that FPGA into a fully-featured embedded tester. Controlled by a simple script the test execution would first start the on-board clock frequency check followed by memory testing and measuring signal integrity on buses and links. Combined with external ATE / EGSE equipment, the embedded T&M framework would close the loop offering full transparency in diagnostic access both from external interfaces as well as right from the inside allowing to catch defects very early in product development and production cycle.

 

"We have recently done a couple of projects for the New Space segment and expect a growing demand, as the space industry adopts high-performance FPGAs with increasing pace. So, the test technology has to also evolve accordingly", says Artur Jutman.

 
Space Tech Expo Europe taking place in Bremen, Germany November 14-16th, is a very lively event featuring more than 650 exhibitors, 6200+ attendees and 55 hours of conference content delivered by more than 150 speakers.