High-speed on-board data processing for science instruments

Jeffrey Y. Beyon; Tak-Kwong Ng; Bing Lin; Yongxiang Hu; Wallace Harrison

doi:10.1117/12.2050358

9 June 2014 High-speed on-board data processing for science instruments

Jeffrey Y. Beyon, Tak-Kwong Ng, Bing Lin, Yongxiang Hu, Wallace Harrison

Proceedings Volume 9080, Laser Radar Technology and Applications XIX; and Atmospheric Propagation XI; 90800L (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2050358
Event: SPIE Defense + Security, 2014, Baltimore, MD, United States

Abstract

A new development of on-board data processing platform has been in progress at NASA Langley Research Center since April, 2012, and the overall review of such work is presented in this paper. The project is called High-Speed On-Board Data Processing for Science Instruments (HOPS) and focuses on a high-speed scalable data processing platform for three particular National Research Council’s Decadal Survey missions such as Active Sensing of CO2 Emissions over Nights, Days, and Seasons (ASCENDS), Aerosol-Cloud-Ecosystems (ACE), and Doppler Aerosol Wind Lidar (DAWN) 3-D Winds. HOPS utilizes advanced general purpose computing with Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) based algorithm implementation techniques. The significance of HOPS is to enable high speed on-board data processing for current and future science missions with its reconfigurable and scalable data processing platform. A single HOPS processing board is expected to provide approximately 66 times faster data processing speed for ASCENDS, more than 70% reduction in both power and weight, and about two orders of cost reduction compared to the state-of-the-art (SOA) on-board data processing system. Such benchmark predictions are based on the data when HOPS was originally proposed in August, 2011. The details of these improvement measures are also presented. The two facets of HOPS development are identifying the most computationally intensive algorithm segments of each mission and implementing them in a FPGA-based data processing board. A general introduction of such facets is also the purpose of this paper.

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Jeffrey Y. Beyon, Tak-Kwong Ng, Bing Lin, Yongxiang Hu, and Wallace Harrison "High-speed on-board data processing for science instruments", Proc. SPIE 9080, Laser Radar Technology and Applications XIX; and Atmospheric Propagation XI, 90800L (9 June 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2050358

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