Investigation of characteristics and applications of new CCD signal processing devices

This final report describes the work on the development of two high-speed sampled analog signal processing modules based on charge coupled device (CCD) technology. A Z-80 microprocessor serves as the controller for the modules. The CCD's used in the modules are an analog-binary correlator (ABC), a programmable transversal filter (PTF), a refreshable sampled analog memory (RSAM), a corner-turning memory (CTM) and a Reticon chirp-z transform device. A description of the devices in contained in the report and a number of possible interconnections are considered. Also described are the software and hardware features in the interface between the CCD modules and the microprocessor and the software that was developed for the Z-80 microprocessor.