Lockheed Martin Corporation

Kenneth R Schulz

John Walter Rapp

Mark J Jones

Larry Jackson

Troy Cherasaro

Andrew Hamm

Chandan Mathur

Thomas D Cronauer

Pablito B Yra

Anne M Cady

Joe Burri

A pipeline accelerator includes a bus and a plurality of pipeline units, each unit coupled to the bus and including at least one respective hardwired-pipeline circuit. By including a plurality of pipeline units in the pipeline accelerator, one can increase the accelerator's data-processing performance as compared to a single-pipeline-unit accelerator. Furthermore, by designing the pipeline units so that they communicate via a common bus, one can alter the number of pipeline units, and thus alter the configuration and functionality of the accelerator, by merely coupling or uncoupling pipeline units to or from the bus. This eliminates the need to design or redesign the pipeline-unit interfaces each time one alters one of the pipeline units or alters the number of pipeline units within the accelerator.

Pipeline accelerator having multiple pipeline units and related computing machine and method

A mission system includes a peer vector machine having a host processor and pipeline accelerator and including bridge objects that provide communication via signal objects, message objects, and mission objects.

Object oriented mission framework and system and method

A sensor assembly includes a sensor operable to sense a physical parameter and generate an electrical signal responsive to the sensed physical parameter. Local processing circuitry is physically positioned proximate the sensor and is electrically coupled to the sensor. The local processing circuitry includes an output port adapted to be coupled to a communications channel and the local processing circuitry is operable to process data from the sensor to generate processed sensor data and to provide the processed data on the output port.

Remote sensor processing system and method

Pipeline accelerator including pipeline circuits in communication via a bus, and related system and method

A geosynchronous satellite control and telemetry communication system has branch modules distributed throughout the satellite which serially interface clusters of control and/or analog nodes to the central command and data handling processor. Each branch module is connected to the central command and data handling processor by serial data channels. The branch modules are physically located close to the control/telemetry nodes for which they serve as interfaces to the central command and data handling processor and where appropriate are integrated into the satellite subsystems themselves.

Control and telemetry signal communication system for geostationary satellites

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Kenneth R Schulz