The Design of the Parallel Arithmetic Unit in PEPE

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Divecchio, Mark Camillo
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As the need for solutions to high speed processing problems increases, new and novel architectures will be developed. PEPE is an attempt to solve a specific real-time problem with use of special purpose hardware. The Ballistic Missile Defense Advanced Technology Center in Huntsville, Alabama started development studies in the late 1960s for a processor to offload the ever increasing demands on a serial processor operating in a ballistic missile defense (BMD) environment. PEPE's design specifically addresses the BMD problem. It was designed to perform three basic functions previously allocated to a CDC 7700 system. They are: Correlation of new radar returns with current tracks Track prediction on all current tracks Scheduling on a radar time/power line, pulses to acquire more data on current or new tracks.

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1978-08-01
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University of Pennsylvania Department of Computer and Information Science Technical Report No. MS-CIS-78-22.
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