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To: engineer who wrote (30097)	5/15/1999 9:07:00 PM
From: Clarksterh	Read Replies (2) of 152472

Engineer - Question regarding: If there is a system upgrade or a system shortcoming, this would be very hard to upgrade and fix if it were not already anticipated before launch. G* has all it's network smarts on the ground, so if there were an oversight in systems design, the groundstation software and hardware could be upgraded as technology gets better. I assume that to a some degree the ASICs on the I* satellites are programmable in much the sense that the NASA satellites are (i.e the example you gave of adding a Reed-Solomon coder.) But do you know what types of switching/coding functions are typically hardwired in technology of I* generation? Clark PS I do not mean to imply that the ASICs are FPGA's, only that software is undoubtedly used to control them to some degree (either internally or externally), just as Qualcomm ASICs are shipped with software. Obviously ASIC's are not my forte, so any info is good info.

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