Plug and play technology for spacewire: drivers and alternatives

SpaceWire has proved very successful since the release of the standard by ECSS. This success Is due to the versatility of SpaceWire and its inherent simplicity and low implementation cost. Beyond the requirement for each packet to be lead by an address and terminated by an end-of-packet marker, SpaceWire does not specify the contents of each packet. The proposed SpaceWire Protocol Identification standard (currently In draft) provides a method for SpaceWire packets to carry higher-layer protocols