High speed data acquisition and control processor

Abstract

Digital data acquisition and control systems present challenges that many of today's computer systems are not equipped to address. Many of the performance requirements in a digital data acquisition and control system may be met by an intelligent device capable of precise, high speed operations. A solution for those performance requirements is presented here with a dual processor board providing flexibility in both hardware and software. The processor is capable of executing over 12 million instructions per second, serves as its own development system, and runs an interpretive, high level programming language. Included is a discussion of the application of this processor in a radar data acquisition system.