Reference Deployment

1. Description

The reference deployment application is to demonstrate a collection of ISF components interconnected to form a deployment. The deployment represents a "reference" spacecraft that includes commanding, events, telemetry channels and parameters.

The application illustrates some example application components:

Component	Description	Link
SendBuffApp	A component that sends a buffer	SDD
RecvBuffApp	A component that receives a buffer	SDD
BlockDriver	A notional driver that relays buffers from SendBuffApp to RecvBuffApp	SDD
SignalGen	A component that generates telemetry following a waveform	SDD
PingReceiver	A test component that gets health pings that can be turned off	SDD

It interconnects those application components with reusable service components:

Component	Description	Link
ActiveLogger	Logs events for downlink	SDD
ActiveRateGroup	Executes a rate group by calling components	SDD
BufferManager	Manages a pool of buffers	SDD
CmdSequencer	Loads a set of commands from a binary file and executes them	SDD
CmdDispatcher	Dispatches commands from a ground system to registered components	SDD
FileDownlink	Component to downlink files to ground system	SDD
FileManager	Component to perform various file operations	SDD
FileUplink	Component to receive uplinked files from ground system	SDD
Health	Pings active components in the topology to verify their aliveness	SDD
PrmDb	Loads sets of parameters from storage at startup and provides them to components	SDD
RateGroupDriver	Sends messages to ActiveRateGroup instances to run a cycle	SDD
TlmChan	Provides storage for telemetry channels and periodically sends them to the ground system	SDD
PolyDb	Manages a database of polymorphic data values	SDD

There is a set of useful utility components that can be used on supported operating systems:

Component	Description	Link
PosixTime	Provides time stamps for telemetry on a posix systems	SDD
PassiveConsoleTextLogger	Prints the text form of events to standard output	SDD

2. Topology

The topology of the reference example is the interconnection of all the components used in the reference deployment (a deployment is a set of components connected together and compiled into a binary). There are a large number of connections so it is not feasible to show them all in one diagram. The following sections have views of the topology that show the connections for a particular purpose. The topology diagrams will be broken down into the core set of Command and Data Handling (C&DH) connections that would be reused from project to project as well as the connections unique to the reference example. The diagrams were generated using MagicDraw, while the XML defining the topology connections was generated using the MagicDraw plug-in developed for ISF.

2.1 Commanding

The commanding view consists of connections for components to register commands, the dispatching of commands and the return of command execution status.

2.1.1 C&DH Commanding

The connections for the C&DH commanding are as follows:

2.1.2 Reference Deployment Commanding

The connections for the reference deployment commanding are as follows:

2.2 Telemetry

The telemetry view consists of connections for components to update telemetry channels in the TlmChan component.

2.2.1 C&DH Telemetry

The connections for the C&DH telemetry are as follows:

2.2.2 Reference Deployment Telemetry

The connections for the reference deployment telemetry are as follows:

2.3 Logging

The logging view consists of connections for components to send events for logging to the ActiveLogger component.

2.3.1 C&DH Logging

The connections for the C&DH logging are as follows:

2.3.2 Reference Deployment Logging

The connections for the reference deployment logging are as follows:

2.4 Parameters

The parameters view consists of connections for components to retrieve and update parameters stored in the PrmDb component.

2.3.1 C&DH Parameters

The core C&DH components do not have any parameters.

2.3.2 Reference Deployment Parameters

The connections for the reference deployment parameters are as follows:

2.5 Time

The time view consists of connections for components to get time for time-tagging events and telemetry.

2.5.1 C&DH Time

The connections for the C&DH time are as follows:

2.5.2 Reference Deployment Time

The connections for the reference deployment time are as follows:

2.6 Health

The health view consists of connections for components to respond to pings from Healthto verify their threads are alive.

2.6.1 C&DH Time

The connections for the C&DH health are as follows:

2.6.2 Reference Deployment Health

The connections for the reference deployment health are as follows:

2.7 Rate Groups

The rate group view consists of connections for components to be executed at different rates in the reference topology.

The connections for the rate groups are as follows:

2.8 Ground

The ground view consists of connections for C&DH components to receive commands from and send telemetry to a ground system. The ground system in the reference example is communicated with via a TCP/IP socket.

The connections for the ground system are as follows:

2.9 Drivers

The drivers view consists of connections for the reference components to send packets to and from the example "driver." The driver also provides ticks to the RateGroupDriver component that cycles the rate groups.

The connections for the drivers are as follows:

3. Change Log

Date	Description
6/19/2015	Initial version
4/20/2017	Rel1.9