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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 1998
Filed:
Jan. 31, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Huy H Luong, Alhambra, CA (US);
James A Donaldson, Glendale, CA (US);
Steven H Wood, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Assignee:
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
371 371 ;
Abstract
Apparatus and method for providing downlink frames to be transmitted from a spacecraft to a ground station. Each downlink frame includes a synchronization pattern and a transfer frame. The apparatus may comprise a monolithic Reed-Solomon downlink (RSDL) encoding chip coupled to data buffers for storing transfer frames. The RSKL chip includes a timing device, a bus interface, a timing and control unit, a synchronization pattern unit, and a Reed-Solomon encoding unit, and a bus arbiter.