Title :
Radiation hardened PowerPC 603eTM based single board computer
Author_Institution :
Honeywell Inc., Clearwater, FL, USA
Abstract :
Honeywell is developing a product line of standard electronics boards for on-orbit payload processing applications. This product line is based on commercial standards for instruction sets, form factors, back plane busses, I/O and software tools. This architecture is based on a data flow model. The radiation hardened, Single Board Computer (SBC) is based on PowerPC 603eTM technology licensed from Motorola. The SBC is one building block for realizing a space computing solution. Other building blocks offered by Honeywell are a radiation hardened vector processor (RHVP), mass memory, sensor interface electronics, and I/O suite. The RHPPC SBC provides enough throughput to enable on-board payload processing or can be used for spacecraft control functions. The current generation of space computers is based on R3000 class architectures and offer 20 MIPS performance. The RHPPC SBC offers 222 MIPS performance
Keywords :
aerospace computing; data flow computing; microcomputers; radiation hardening (electronics); space vehicle electronics; 222 MIPS; PowerPC 603e technology; RHPPC SBC; data flow architecture; on-orbit payload processing; radiation hardness; single board computer; space computing; spacecraft control; Application software; Computer architecture; Instruction sets; Payloads; Radiation hardening; Software standards; Software tools; Space technology; Standards development; Vector processors;
Conference_Titel :
Digital Avionics Systems, 2001. DASC. 20th Conference
Conference_Location :
Daytona Beach, FL
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7034-1
DOI :
10.1109/DASC.2001.964228