A detailed simulation of the command and data subsystem of the Galileo spacecraft on a distributed memory multicomputer is described. The simulation is based on an ensemble of Inmos Transputers for simulating, to the bit level, the execution of instruction sequences for the six RCA 1802 microcomputers and the intricate bus traffic between them and other components of the spacecraft. Expressions were developed to estimate the performance of the simulator on a distributed system given the processor clock speed, memory access time, and communication characteristics.
A multicomputer simulation of the Galileo spacecraft command and data subsystem
Distributed Memory Computing Conference ; 1991 ; Portland, OR, United States
1991-01-01
Conference paper
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English
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