fprime-yamcs: A YAMCS to F Prime Bridge Package

fprime-yamcs is designed to run YAMCS as the ground system when working with fprime. It operates similar to fprime-gds where it launches YAMCS in-lieu of the fprime-gds data pipelines.

Requirements

fprime-yamcs requires the users to have mvn installed. See: https://maven.apache.org/.

[!CAUTION] mvn requires JDK to be installed

Usage

Install this package and run fprime-yamcs on a compatible F Prime deployment.

Configuration

YAMCS is powerful and has many configuration properties. fprime-yamcs requires one instance of YAMCS defined in the configuration to have the following MDB:

mdb:
   - type: xtce
     args:
        file: .../fprime.xtce.xml

This is to allow for automatic dictionary generation. Users declining this service must specify: --no-convert-dictionary.

Caveats

Currently, the default configuration of YAMCS requires F Prime to connect a CCSDS TC/TM framer/deframer to the Drv.Udp component ensuring that UDP is the transport mechanism.

flowchart LR
    subgraph FPRIME["F´"]
        FPD["F´ Dictionary<br/>(JSON topology dictionary)"]
    end

    subgraph OUTER["fprime-yamcs CLI"]
        subgraph FY["fprime-yamcs"]
            XTCEC["XTCE Converter<br/>(fprime-xtce)"]
            EVENTS["F Prime Event Processor"]
            BASECFG["Standard Config<br/>(yamcs.yml, processors, links, etc.)"]
        end

        XTCE["XTCE Dictionary<br/>(YAMCS dialect XML)"]

        subgraph YSYS["YAMCS"]
            YAMCS["Mission Control / Ground System"]
        end
    end

    FPD --> XTCEC
    FPD --> EVENTS

    XTCEC --> XTCE
    XTCE --> YAMCS
    EVENTS --> YAMCS
    BASECFG --> YAMCS

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    style OUTER stroke-dasharray: 5 5, fill:none