An FPGA/SoC approach to on-board data processing enabling new mars science with smart payloads

IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Pingree, Paula J ^a   Blavier, Jean Francois L ^a   Toon, Geoffrey C ^a   Bekker, Dmitriy L ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Rochester Institute of Technology

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIP SCALE PACKAGES; DATA PROCESSING; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); ORBITS; SPACECRAFT INSTRUMENTS;

DOWNLINK; FLOATING-POINT UNIT (FPU); ON-BOARD DATA PROCESSING; PAYLOADS;

MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS;

EID: 34548792313     PISSN: 1095323X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AERO.2007.353091     Document Type: Conference Paper

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