Datasets / Spacecraft on a Chip Development Project


Spacecraft on a Chip Development Project

Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Issued over 9 years ago

US
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Summary

Type of release
a one-off release of a single dataset

Data Licence
Not Applicable

Content Licence
Creative Commons CCZero

Verification
automatically awarded

Description

<p>System on a chip is a method to increase engineering efficiency. State of the art components are increasing in gate count as expected according to Moore’s law. In the past, a single engineer could write all of the code that would be placed into a smaller programmable component. As component density has increased, it now typically takes several engineers to develop a single chip. In the near future, design modularity and design reuse will be required to maintain engineering efficiency.</p><p>System on a chip allows NASA to develop or buy a library of functions which can be stitched together using a common interconnect bus. This promotes code reuse and greatly increases the speed at which a large, complex design can be developed. The direct benefits are efficiency and remaining competitive. This design methodology paves the way for the final goal of developing a complete spacecraft on a chip.</p><p>The goal of this project is to lay the key groundwork for being able to build a complete spacecraft on a chip.</p>