International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 20-23, 2003 / Riviera Hotel and Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada / Today’s flight test programs are experiencing increasing demands for a greater number of high-rate
digital parameters, competition for spectrum space, and a need for operational flexibility in flight test
instrumentation. These demands must be met while meeting schedule and budget constraints. To
address these various needs, the Boeing Integrated Defense System (IDS) Flight Test
Instrumentation group in St. Louis has developed an onboard processing capability for use with
airborne instrumentation data collection systems. This includes a first-generation Onboard Processor
(OBP) which has been successfully used on the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet flight test program for four
years, and which provides a throughput of 5 Mbytes/s and a processing capability of 480 Mflops
(floating-point operations per second). Boeing IDS Flight Test is also currently developing a second
generation OBP which features greatly enhanced input and output flexibility and algorithm
programmability, and is targeted to provide a throughput of 160 Mbytes/s with a processing
capability of 16 Gflops. This paper describes these onboard processing capabilities and their
benefits.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/605592 |
| Date | 10 1900 |
| Creators | Wegener, John A., Blase, Gordon A. |
| Contributors | Boeing Integrated Defense Systems |
| Publisher | International Foundation for Telemetering |
| Source Sets | University of Arizona |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text, Proceedings |
| Rights | Copyright © International Foundation for Telemetering |
| Relation | http://www.telemetry.org/ |
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