A high performance COTS based vector processor for space

Author

Prado, Edward R. ; Prewitt, J. Patrick

Author_Institution

Space Syst., Honeywell Inc., Clearwater, FL, USA

Volume

5

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

227

Abstract

A scalable, re-programmable radiation hardened vector processor for space applications is presented. An architectural approach combining a vector processor and a general purpose digital signal processor is shown to yield substantial processing gains over traditional implementations. Point solutions are presented yielding savings of up to five times the size, weight, and power over traditional implementations

Keywords

aerospace computing; coprocessors; digital signal processing chips; pipeline processing; programming environments; radiation hardening (electronics); space vehicle electronics; vector processor systems; COTS based vector processor; coprocessor; general purpose DSP; high performance; pipeline oriented operations; point solutions; processing gains; scalable reprogrammable radiation hardened; scalar DSP; software development environment; space applications; vector processing engine; Clocks; Digital filters; Digital signal processing; Discrete cosine transforms; Fast Fourier transforms; Finite impulse response filter; Radiation hardening; Signal processing algorithms; Space stations; Vector processors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Aerospace Conference Proceedings, 2000 IEEE

Conference_Location

Big Sky, MT

ISSN

1095-323X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5846-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AERO.2000.878494

Filename

878494