One Gigasample Per Second Data Acquisition Using Available Gate Array Technology
 
Ken Wagner
NASA GSFC 

A new NASA instrument forced demanding requirements upon its altimeter
digitizer system.  Eight-bit data would be generated at a rate of one
billion samples per second.  NASA had never before attempted the feat
of capturing such high-speed data in the radiation, low-power,
no-convective-cooling, limited-board-area environment of space.  This
presentation describes how the gate array technology available at the time
of the design was used implement this one gigasample per second data
acquisition system.