Space Wire Automated Network Design and Simulation

The paper provides an analysis of existing simulation tools for Space Wire networks. We overview the main abilities of the existing software and then propose the computer-aided design (CAD) system for SpaceWire onboard networks design and simulation - SANDS. SANDS system will support the full on-board network design and simulation flow, which begins from the network topology automated generation and finishes with getting the network structure, configuration and parameters setting, simulation results and statistics. The paper also provides use cases for SANDS application.