An integrated circuit physical layout has been developed for the RSDL ASIC™ — an integrated circuit that encodes telemetry data and transfers the data (which are grouped together in transfer frames) to a radio transmitter. The RSDL ASIC is described in "ASIC for Reed-Solomon Coding and Related Functions" (NPO-19614), which appears elsewhere in this issue of NASA Tech Briefs. The present physical layout will be converted to mask for IC fabrication of the RSDL ASIC. The physical layout has been extensively simulated for its timing, control, bus-arbitration, encoding, and data-transfer functions, which have been summarized in the noted prior article.

This work was done by James A. Donaldson, Steven H. Wood, and Huy H. Luong of Caltech for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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Refer to NPO-19626