Title :
MUSE: a message passing concurrent computer for on-board space systems
Author :
Gaume, F. ; Simon, F. ; Le Gall, J.-Y.
Author_Institution :
Autom. & Intell. Syst. Unit, Alcatel Alsthom Recherche, Marcoussis, France
Abstract :
Satellite payloads of the near future will raise the need of very powerful and dependable computers. No embeddable monoprocessor will be able to satisfy such computing power need. Thus those computers will be multi-processor systems. Satellite payloads must meet high availability requirements rather then reliability ones. This allows the use of fail stop reconfigurable computers. This paper describes the MUSE architecture, a reconfigurable multi-processor computer designed to support signal processing applications in space systems
Keywords :
aerospace computing; computer network reliability; digital signal processing chips; fault tolerant computing; message passing; parallel architectures; processor scheduling; reconfigurable architectures; reliability; resource allocation; special purpose computers; MUSE; embeddable monoprocessor; fail stop reconfigurable computers; high availability requirements; message passing concurrent computer; multi-processor systems; on-board space systems; reconfigurable multi-processor computer; signal processing applications; Availability; Computer architecture; Concurrent computing; Embedded computing; Message passing; Payloads; Power system reliability; Satellites; Signal design; Signal processing;
Conference_Titel :
Reliable Distributed Systems, 1995. Proceedings., 14th Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Bad Neuenahr
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7153-X
DOI :
10.1109/RELDIS.1995.526224
