Space Micro Inc. — National Aeronautics and Space Administration SBIR Phase I: Space Micro proposes to develop a radiation hardened, monolithic, heterogeneous processor

Description

Space Micro proposes to develop a radiation hardened, monolithic, heterogeneous processor for space imaging and radar systems. High performance processors are needed because many space systems generate copious amounts of sensor data at high data rates. The extraction of information from such data streams requires high speed data reduction. Parallel processing may be required to keep pace with the data stream, and that processing often requires application of sophisticated digital filtering or compression algorithms. The results of the signal processing then require aggregation and additional processing to produce actionable information to be used either on the satellite or downloaded to the mission controller.