The Wide-Band Signal Processor

• Main Author: Stiffler, J. J.
• Other Authors: Raytheon Company
• Language: en_US
• Published: International Foundation for Telemetering 1978
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/609800; http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/609800

International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / November 14-16, 1978 / Hyatt House Hotel, Los Angeles, California === The Wide-Band Signal Processor (WBSP) is a spaceborne communications processor designed to operate as a peripheral to the Fault-Tolerant Spaceborne Computer (FTSC) currently being developed for the U. S. Air Force. Its function is to demodulate and decode received FDM and TDM signals and to re-encode the recovered information and use it to modulate signals for retransmission. The major difference between the WBSP and other processors designed to perform similar functions is in the fact that the WBSP, like the FTSC itself, is designed to survive its own hardware malfunctions.