Special-Purpose Peripherals

(Signal-Processing Hardware)

Special-Purpose Peripherals
(Signal-Processing Hardware)

Data acquisition

Logarithmic and data compression

Rounding, filtering, coding, channel capacity,
probability, incremental values, ...

Frequency domain transformation

Time domain -> frequency domain
Fourier transform, inverse transform , wavelets

Power/energy spectrum accumulation

Image processing
Digital/analog conversion

Some Flight Computer Variations

Fault Tolerance Requirements

Failure at a single point should not cause
failure of entire system
It should be possible to isolate the
effects of a single component failure
It should be possible to contain
individual failures to prevent failure
propagation
Reversionary modes should be available
(fail-safe design)
backup software
backup hardware