FLEXIBLE BEAMFORMING, CHANNELIZATION, AND ROUTING FOLDED PROCESSING ARCHITECTURE FOR DIGITAL SATELLITE PAYLOADS

摘要

An electronic device for a communications satellite for beamforming, channelization, and/or routing is implemented using a digital folded architecture to reduce the number of serial communication paths and provide more flexible routing and network configurability and scalability. A method for configuring the switching network of a system comprising multiple electronic devices allows the system to be dynamically reconfigured to implement different types of networks.