Boeing Satellite Systems (BSS) said it had completed design of 9 ...
Boeing Satellite Systems (BSS) said it had completed design of 9 types of application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) for Spaceway broadband satellite system. Spaceway is next-generation broadband satellite system from Hughes, scheduled for N. American service in 2003. High-speed communications…
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platform employs satellites with on-board digital processors, packet switching and active phased-array antenna technology. IBM will use designs to build multimillion-gate ASICs that consume half as much power per function while delivering 4 times processing capability of current-generation chips. Spaceway ASICs range in size from 136,000 to more than eight million gates each, record-breaking space performance milestone made possible by BSS design and IBM’s 0.16-micron SA 27 copper ASIC technology.