International Business Machines Corporation

Lockheed Martin Corporation

Thomas D Cronauer

Kenneth R Schulz

Pablito B Yra

Joe Burri

Galen P Plunkett

Anne M Cady

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

An external dispatcher distributes prioritize tasks to a plurality of processor channels. The processor channels then contend for one of two partitions for the execution of instructions assigned thereto during a multiphase instruction cycle. Two unique processor channels, working on unrelated tasks, utilize the even and the odd partitions to execute a single instruction assigned to the respective processor channels. The instruction cycle is subdivided into phases in order to maximize the use of a memory system and the central processing unit (CPU). When one of the partitions is accessing the memory system and working registers associated therewith, the other partition is utilizing the CPU. The net result is the efficient use of all memory bandwidth and the CPU without requiring pipe lined set/execute structures common on high performance micro-program systems.

Multi-channel shared resource processor

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Thomas D Cronauer