U.S. Army Eyes Big Savings With Small Chip Investment

摘要

U.S. Army officials are hoping that a relatively small investment in the development of a new computer chip for satellite ground terminals will reduce the cost of future terminals used by U.S. troops around the world to access communications satellites. The M132 processing chip handles a role in X-band ground terminals that has traditionally been performed by racks of expensive equipment, according to Rick Dunnegan, lead technical integrator for the Superconducting All Digital RF Technology project at the Army's Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center (CERDEC) in Fort Monmouth, N.J.