Software Techniques for Soft Error Resilience: the ASTRAEUS project

ASTRAEUS project aims to improve the use of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) devices in space telecommunication applications. The goal is to develop specialized radiation mitigation techniques for both hardware and software components with a special focus on the latter. The aim is to demonstrate the feasibility and reliability of these techniques, enabling their future use in telecommunication payload processing units. The SIHFT (Software Implemented Hardware Fault Tolerance) approach will be enforced, where some proper modification to a conventional compilation toolchain, will make possible the identification of temporary fault and the adoption of fault tolerant solutions. The successful implementation of this project will de-risk the use of software-based radiation mitigation techniques and foster the adoption of high-performance while cost-effective COTS electronics in space applications.