Chips in Space -- MacSpace, A Record Throughput Multi-Core Processor for Satellites
Hagay Gellis, CEVA, and Peleg Aviely, Ramon Chips
EETimes (7/28/2015 04:20 PM EDT)
MacSpace is a collaborative R&D project aiming to research and develop a many-core DSP chip and computer for use in space.
Up in the sky there are hundreds of satellites; in fact, there are currently an estimated 3600 satellites orbiting the earth. There are many usages for satellites, including weather satellites, navigation, TV broadcast, earth remote sensing, and communications. Members of the latter category are used to convey communication signals across large distances than cannot be easily linked by a direct line or cable.
Most communication satellites today actually act like a mirror: they receive signals from one station on earth, amplify these signals, and send them on to other locations on earth. The point to note here is that, other than amplifying the signal in some cases, most satellites do not perform any actual processing on the received signals.
To read the full article, click here
Related Semiconductor IP
- 5G IoT DSP
- Audio and control DSP
- 5G RAN DSP
- 512-bit Vector DSP IP, Single Core with Functional Safety
- 512-bit Vector DSP IP, Quad Core with Functional Safety
Related White Papers
- Bringing Order to Multi-Core Processor Chaos
- Build low power video SoCs with programmable multi-core video processor IP
- Software Infrastructure of an embedded Video Processor Core for Multimedia Solutions
- A formal-based approach for efficient RISC-V processor verification