Functional-oriented processors for on-board control systems of rocket and space complexes
It is noted that development of the modern onboard digital computing systems (ODCS) is characterized by contradictory trends. On the one hand, the requirements for their informative characteristics, especially the performance, are increasing. On the other hand, restrictions on weight, power consumption, etc. are increasing. The architecture of ODCS with decentralized data processing based on function-oriented processors (FOP) is considered as a direction for a possible way out of this contradiction. The feature of the FOP is to provide high performance due to the specialization of their architectures. A classification is proposed for FOP architectures designed to implement the most complex computational procedures - functions, individual blocks of algorithms, or even specific tasks. The results of the development of real FOP for applying at various levels of information processing in ODCS are considered.