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10 April 2012

 

STAR-Dundee are excited to be attending the 28th National Space Symposium  in Colorado Springs, USA, over the 16th-19th April.

We will be running live demos of our newest development equipment including our most recently released Interface board the SpaceWire PCIe and two soon-to-be-released products: SpaceWire EGSE, a highly capable test device designed to rapidly emulate or stimulate instruments and other SpaceWire enabled units, and SpaceWire RTC Development Kit; our SpaceWire Software Development Environment supporting our new SpaceWire RTC Unit based on ATMEL’s AT7913E, a flight ready LEON based IC for interfacing on-board instruments. Watch our website for announcements on these products.

Come and visit us on our stand and you will receive a copy of the first printing of our SpaceWire User’s Guide; our guide to the SpaceWire Standard that gives practical information on designing and implementing SpaceWire systems, and also describes the origins of the Standard and some early Missions SpaceWire flew on. The SpaceWire User’s Manual can be read on-line in our SpaceWire Knowledge Base.

We will be exhibiting on booth 1515 in the Pavilion so we hope you can join us for what promises to be an interesting 4 days of seminars and exhibitions, networking and events.


30 March 2012

STAR-System GUIs

STAR-Dundee is proud to unveil their new software stack: STAR-System.
 
The new system architecture has been designed as a minimal layer with a single programming interface, STAR-API, that is consistent across all supported operating systems. Written from scratch with the extensive knowledge gained from previous stacks, with all dependencies on third party code removed, has allowed the entire stack to be specifically optimised for speed and efficiency targeting SpaceWire applications.
 
STAR-API itself has been developed specifically for test and development, not just transmitting and receiving packets, but providing the functionality to, for example, transmit time-codes in sequence with data characters, and terminate packets with EEPs.
 
STAR-System is the software provided for accessing all new and future router and interface devices. The first STAR-Dundee products using STAR-System are the Mk2 interface device family including PCI Mk2, cPCI Mk2 and PMC Mk2.
 
STAR-System advances include support for:

  • 64-bit versions of Windows and Linux.
  • Running 32-bit applications on 64-bit operating systems.
  • Newer Linux kernels.
  • Multiple applications accessing the same device at one time.
  • Support for additional operating systems such as QNX
  • … and improved API documentation, examples, and application notes.

 
STAR-System includes GUI applications for both Windows and Linux, provided to make it easier for users to get started using STAR-Dundee devices. The new GUI applications provide a simple interface to the most common functions for users getting started with SpaceWire devices and systems: Device and Link configuration, Transmit and Receive packets, and Transmit and Receive statistics. Additional GUI features to be released very soon include: Packet Generator and Packet Checker, and Error Injection.
 

22 November 2011

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STAR-Dundee was delighted to attend the 4th International SpaceWire Conference, 8 - 10 Nov 2011, San Antonio, TX, USA.
 
A great number of the STAR-Dundee team attended the conference, with the company also having a stand in the conference’s industrial exhibition. We would like to thank everyone who made this year’s conference such a success, and we’d particularly like to thank those who came to visit us at our exhibition stand. It is always a pleasure to talk with and support the members of the SpaceWire community.
 
For anyone who didn't get a chance to speak with us, you can find more information about our products on the Products page or contact a member of the team using the Contact page.
 
 
 

15 April 2011

USB Logo

STAR-Dundee have released a 64-bit SpaceWire USB device driver for Windows, to accompany the existing 32-bit driver, and it is now available for download.

The USB driver supports the SpaceWire Brick, SpaceWire Router-USB, SpaceWire Link Analyser, and the SpaceWire Conformance Tester. Both the 64-bit version of the driver and the 32-bit version will work on Windows (XP, Vista, Windows 7), with 64-bit and 32-bit Linux also available. STAR-Dundee include drivers, APIs (where applicable), delivery, and technical support with all hardware.

To download the driver for your USB device, please register your product here


 

1 April 2011

Our new location

STAR-Dundee Expand Premises

We are proud to announce that STAR-Dundee have recently expanded to a new building. Our postal address has not changed, however please take note of our new contact numbers:

Postal address
STAR-Dundee Ltd.
Ewing Building
Smalls Lane
Dundee, DD1 4HN
Scotland, UK

General Enquiries Telephone
+44 (0)1382 201 755

Fax
+44 (0)1382 388 838

You can still receive technical support from support@star-dundee.com, quotes on SpaceWire products at quotes@star-dundee.com, or contact us with any other queries at enquiries@star-dundee.com.

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