DocumentCode
900978
Title
Deep water-ASIC design in the real world [submarine control systems]
Author
James, Michael A.
Author_Institution
Dowty Maritime Syst. Ltd., Tewkesbury, UK
Volume
36
Issue
7
fYear
1990
fDate
7/12/1990 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
263
Lastpage
265
Abstract
The author describes how Dowty Maritime Systems developed a submarine command and control system for the UK Ministry of Defence. The system chosen was an ASIC-based distributed-multiprocessor architecture, and the author describes how early design decisions for the project included the choice of transputers for array processing, a Multibus II backplane for intercomputer communication, and a fibre-optic token ring for subsystem data communication. It was also recognised that implementing the proposed distributed architecture would require a set of suitable building blocks, in the form of purpose-designed single-board 32 bit computers with integral input/output
Keywords
application specific integrated circuits; command and control systems; digital control; marine systems; multiprocessing systems; optical links; token networks; ASIC design; Dowty; Multibus II backplane; array processing; distributed-multiprocessor architecture; fibre-optic token ring; intercomputer communication; submarine control systems; transputers;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
IEE Review
Publisher
iet
ISSN
0953-5683
Type
jour
Filename
216045
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