CIWS Software Specification Document (SSD)

Abstract

The Customizable Instrument Workstation Software (CIWS) is a telescope - and instrument - independent software system for raw Level 0 (L0) and Level 1 (L1) data handling. The system is aimed at providing a common and standard solution for the storage, processing, quick look and retrieval of the data generated by space-borne or ground-based telescopes and by the auxiliary data sources (e.g.: calibration facilities housekeeping) during the development, integration, verification, test and operation activities to be carried out on the telescope instrument.

The present document represents the output of the Software Requirement phase and of the Architectural Design phase. The purposes of this document are the following: 1. to serve as a tool to gather the software requirements that will drive the development of the software of this subsystem 2. it could be used as a guide to select and re-use existing software, to be identified at a later stage during the architecture definition of the subsystem 3. it should be used to identify the correct interfaces with external systems