MUSE: a message passing concurrent computer for on-board space systems

Author

Gaume, F. ; Simon, F. ; Le Gall, J.-Y.

Author_Institution

Autom. & Intell. Syst. Unit, Alcatel Alsthom Recherche, Marcoussis, France

fYear

1995

fDate

13-15 Sep 1995

Firstpage

162

Lastpage

170

Abstract

Satellite payloads of the near future will raise the need of very powerful and dependable computers. No embeddable monoprocessor will be able to satisfy such computing power need. Thus those computers will be multi-processor systems. Satellite payloads must meet high availability requirements rather then reliability ones. This allows the use of fail stop reconfigurable computers. This paper describes the MUSE architecture, a reconfigurable multi-processor computer designed to support signal processing applications in space systems

Keywords

aerospace computing; computer network reliability; digital signal processing chips; fault tolerant computing; message passing; parallel architectures; processor scheduling; reconfigurable architectures; reliability; resource allocation; special purpose computers; MUSE; embeddable monoprocessor; fail stop reconfigurable computers; high availability requirements; message passing concurrent computer; multi-processor systems; on-board space systems; reconfigurable multi-processor computer; signal processing applications; Availability; Computer architecture; Concurrent computing; Embedded computing; Message passing; Payloads; Power system reliability; Satellites; Signal design; Signal processing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Reliable Distributed Systems, 1995. Proceedings., 14th Symposium on

Conference_Location

Bad Neuenahr

ISSN

1060-9857

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7153-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RELDIS.1995.526224

Filename

526224