Leveraging flight heritage to new compactPCI space systems: a fusion of architectures

The advent of NASA-JPL's X2000 architecture has brought compactPCI (cPCI) to the forefront as the system bus of choice for space data processing. This paper presents a hybrid architecture allowing the inclusion of new, high performance cPCI modules with heritage VME-based modules. The hybrid system yields a cost-effective, performance optimized processing solution for space.