Microprocessors in Space

This book discusses .the use of microprocessors in space missions, from the earliest 4-bit machines to the most current 32-bit implementations. It covers the transition from monolithic processors with extensive glue logic, to IP cores instantiated in FPGA's. It gives the high-lights of the microprocessors sent and being sent into space, and the problems of sustaining their operations there. Microprocessors orbit the earth, sit on other planets, and have left the Solar system into interstell...