Space missions, where bandwidth and storage capacity are always economically constrained, demand efficient data management and transmission techniques. Ideally, system enhancements may result from applying effective data compression, which conserves essential information while minimizing the data set size.
Compression demands that data be stored locally and processed (i.e. encoded) onboard before being transmitted to Earth. Advanced lossless algorithms place strong demands on spaceborne computational power. Data compression algorithms together with processor performance have advanced considerably over the last few decades.
It is now possible for the latest, leading-edge, multi-core communication processors to deliver rapid real-time compression. Space-grade processors, such as new devices from Teledyne e2v, prove highly effective at supporting this application.
Teledyne e2v's demonstration showcases the Teledyne e2v processor's remarkable capacity to operate data compression software for a large range of files (image, video, binary executable), similar to laptop processors. Teledyne e2v processors offer on-board processing capabilities to operate resource-hungry data compression software.
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