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Space systems of the near future will raise the need of very powerful and dependable computers. Applications such as realtime synthetic aperture radar imaging (SAR) or stereo-vision need high capability of digital signal processing and then high computing power. Moreover, like any satellite component, these systems must be long-life ones and remotely repairable. Due to cost, weight, energy and environment constraints, reconfigurable multi-processors structures seem to be the right way to reach the performance and dependability goals. This paper describes MUSE, a message passing concurrent computer for on-board space systems, currently under design. MUSE is a reconfigurable multiprocessor distributed memory computer designed to support signal processing applications in space systems.
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Le Gall, JY., Simon, F. (1994). MUSE: a message passing concurrent computer for on-board space systems. In: Buchberger, B., Volkert, J. (eds) Parallel Processing: CONPAR 94 — VAPP VI. VAPP CONPAR 1994 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 854. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58430-7_48
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