The boot software of the control unit of the near infrared spectrograph of the Euclid space mission: technical specification
Jaime Gómez-Sáenz-de-Tejada, R. Toledo-Moreo, C Colodro-Conde, David Pérez-Lizán, Jesús Fernández-Conde, Sebastián Sánchez · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2016
The Near Infrared Spectrograph and Photometer (NISP) is one of the instruments on board the ESA EUCLID mission. The Boot Software (BSW) is in charge of initialization and communications after a reset occurs at hard- ware level. The Universidad Politecnica de Cartagena and Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias are responsible of the Instrument Control Unit of the NISP (NI-ICU) in the Euclid Consortium. The NI-ICU BSW is developed by Universidad de Alcal´a, and its main functions are: communication with the S/C for memory management, self-tests and start of a patchable Application Software (ASW). This paper presents the NI-ICU BSW status of definition and design at the end of the Technical Specification phase.