Facing software complexity on large telescopes

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5496, Issue , 2004, Pages 260-270

  Swart, Gerhard ^a   Bester, Deon ^a   Brink, Janus ^a   Gumede, Clifford ^a   Schalekamp, Hendrik ^a  

^a SALT Foundation   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Computer architecture; Control; SALT; Software; System integration

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONTROL SYSTEMS; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; STANDARDS;

SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE STANDARDS; SYSTEM INTEGRATION; USER INTERFACE DESIGN;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 12344250981     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.551455     Document Type: Conference Paper

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