It doesn't take a rocket scientist
Posted by Dave Orecchio on Thu, Feb 21, 2008 @ 09:56 PM
I think the recent launch of the three-stage RIM-161 SM-3 missile that destroyed the bus sized spy satellite last evening required rocket scientists. I have trouble throwing a football to my boys and accurately leading them so the ball meets them in their route and I can't imagine how difficult it must have been to accomplish this satellite busting task.
The team that shot down the satellite had to deal with an object the size of a yellow school bus (those of you with children may now have vivid memories of The Magic School Bus TV series where they often traveled into space in a magic bus), traveling at 17,000 MPH at 153 miles above the earth's surface. No, it was not the Magic School Bus, it was indeed a satellite. It took some very smart people to execute the mission successfully. Thanks to go out to those rocket scientists that removed the risk of the 1,000 pounds of hazardous hydrazine that could have been raining down on an unsuspecting population.
Of course there is a thankless FPGA Verification and Debug plug side to this story...
GateRocket's product is called a RocketDrive and it does NOT require a rocket scientist to operate it. You just need to know a few parameters about your FPGA design and the tools automatically integrate it in-silicon and into your favorite simulator. It provides you with a fast and accurate verification solution with advanced debugging capabilities. The science is in the algorithms that make the product easy to use.
If your not a rocket scientist and need help verifying and debugging your FPGA, contact GateRocket and they will be happy to help you.