Instrument data systems consist of a microprocessor, 3K bytes of Read Only Memory and 3K bytes of Random Access Memory. It interfaces with the spacecraft data bus through an isolated user interface with a direct memory access bus adaptor, and/or parallel data from instrument devices such as registers, buffers, analog to digital converters, multiplexers, and solid state sensors. These data systems support the spacecraft hardware and software communication protocol, decode and process instrument commands, generate continuous instrument operating modes, control the instrument mechanisms, acquire, process, format, and output instrument science data.


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    Title :

    Eight microprocessor-based instrument data systems in the Galileo Orbiter spacecraft


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    Publication date :

    1980-01-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English






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