Frédéric NARBONNE

Navigation & Aeronautical Communications Business Unit NAV

GALILEO : Galileo will be Europe’s own global navigation satellite system, providing a highly accurate, guaranteed global positioning service under civilian control. It will be inter-operable with GPS and GLONASS, the two other global satellite navigation systems.

· I have been working as an AIV (Assembly, Integration and Validation) Engineer working on the GMS (Groung Mission Segment). I am in charge of the “Processing Chain” (consisting mainly in the “Orbit & Synchronisation Processing Facility”, “Integrity Processing Facility”, and “Missions Support Facility”).

Environment
Area: Spatial and Navigation
Management Tools: DOORS

Sector: Aeronautic - Navy - Space - Armament

Navigation & Aeronautical Communications Business Unit NAV

EGNOS (European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service or Early Galileo Navigation Operational Service), precursor to the Galileo positioning system.

· I have been working as an AIV (Assembly, Integration and Validation) Engineer in the EGNOS CPF (Central Processing Facility) team. I am responsible for the writing, configuration management, preparation, running and analysis of the tests.
· I have been performing the onsite upgrades of the CPFs’ bootloaders (CPF initialisation SW) in the various MCC (Mission Control Centre) in Langen (Germany), in Swanwick (Great-Britain), in Torrejon (Spain), in Ciampino (Italia) or in PACF (Performance Assessment and Check-out Facility) in CNES (Toulouse, France).
· I am in charge of the obsolescence analysis of the CPF.

Environment
Area: Spatial and Navigation
Hardware: CPF (VMPC6a boards, IRIG boards, VME bus, etc.)
Software: Networks + Linux/Unix (scripts, etc.)
Management Tools: DOORS
Standards: Minimum Operational Performance Standards (MOPS) – Appendix A : “Wide Area Augmentation System Signal Specification”

Sector: Aeronautic - Navy - Space - Armament

· Equipment MCTB of the TCR segment of the France’s Syracuse 3A military communications satellite (Alcatel Space)
Design/Realization of the CLE’s Graphical User Interface

· Gateway / Project A9780 “DSL in the sky” – (in AIV TEAM of Alcatel Space)
Broadband Networking by Satellite

· A380 Integration System Bench (Airbus Industrie):
Design/Realization/Integration/Validation of the Multi-resources GUI

Environment
Language: C (LabWindows/CVI et Linux), C++ (Visual Studio), Tcl, Visual Basic 6
Protocols: TCP/UDP/IP, RPC
OS: Windows, Linux,
Real Time OS: LynxOS
Development: Windows GUI (LabWindows/CVI) and Linux GUI (Glade-2.0, libraries Gtk+ and Glib),
Real Time under LynxOS (cross-development),
Development under Linux Mandrake 10.0 (GNU Tools, CVS, Doxygen and Ethereal)

Sector: Aeronautic - Navy - Space - Armament

CAPTEC is a high technology Irish company specializing in advanced software development for the space and medical markets. Since starting with the company in June, I have developed several applications using CAPTEC’s in-house image compression software, including a codec for video compression (I used mainly C++ (Visual C++), MFC, Microsoft DDK).

-> Development of several applications and a library using CAPTEC’s in-house image compression software RICA (Reversible Image Compression Algorithm) (development in Visual C++ under Windows, using MFC, dialog-box based applications, document/view architecture, and the C++ Standard Library)
-> Development of the compress part of a codec using the RICA algorithm (development in Visual C++ under Windows, Microsoft DDK) Study of the ESA ECSS-E-40B Standard for the validation of the software embedded on HERSHEL-PLANCK Spacecraft. (1 month)

Environment
Language : C and C++, MFC
Development : Development under Windows (Visual C++, Microsoft Driver Development Kit) and under Unix (with GNU software: gcc, make, emacs).
OS : Windows NT and 2000: creation of DLL’s, manipulation of the Shell and the registry of Windows, Unix (Solaris).

Sector: Aeronautic - Navy - Space - Armament

I was responsible for the development of a multiprocessor real time operating system. The most important part of my work was to modify the scheduler and to initialise most of the components that rely on the second processor. This included technical design of the kernel code, coding in C and assembler, testing and documenting.

Environment
Language: C, assembler PowerPC.
Protocols: TCP/IP, serial link, SMP (Symmetric Multiprocessing), protocol BootP
Development: Cross-development under Unix (with GNU software: gcc, make, emacs)
OS: Unix (Solaris/Linux), FastOS (kernel of THALES)
Material : Vmpcx6x biprocessor board (CETIA) based on PowerPC processor

Sector: Aeronautic - Navy - Space - Armament

I researched the possibility of evolving Linux real time to support a new scheduling of its tasks (language C, Linux).

Sector: Research and development