ESA Athena WFI Onboard Electronics - Distributed Control and Data Processing
Markus P. Plattner, Sabine Ott, Sebastian Albrecht, Jintin Tran, Christopher Mandla, Jan-Christoph Tenzer, T. Schanz, Samuel Pliego, Denis Tcherniak, M. Steller, Harald Jeszensky, R. Ottensamer, Konrad R. Skup, Chris Thomas, Julian Thornhill · 2020
Within this paper, we describe architecture and functionality of the Wide Field Imager (WFI) control and data processing electronics. WFI is one of two scientific instruments of the next European X-ray observatory ATHENA whose development started five years ago. A conceptual design, development models and a number of technology development activities have been performed and results will be shown.