Robust Multicore Middleware

NASA#39;s new mission requirements for complex autonomous operations, high-end sensor processing, swarm/constellation management, planetary/lunar landing, and autonomous exploration missions, require novel onboard processing approaches because rad-hard processors do not offer enough performance and COTS alone do not meet criticality requirements. The significance of Troxel Aerospacersquo;s SEFI/SEU Mitigation Middleware (SMM) innovation is that it is the only feasible technology that provides a path to enabling these types of missions by allowing high-performance COTS processors to operate with a high degree of fault tolerance without the need for rad-hard electronics, and thus simultaneously meets advanced missionsrsquo; criticality and performance requirements. Troxel Aerospace has demonstrated Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 6 capability of the SMM through deployment and extensive radiation testing, and the proposed Sequential Phase II program is necessary to finish the maturation of the technology to TRL8 and deploy it with one of several mission opportunities.