Abstract:A universal real-time platform for a Space-Time Adaptive Processing (STAP) is developed. The platform is composed of multi-DSPs,FPGA and a general-purpose processor. Refined from the Bulk Synchronous Parallel model (BSP) by Valiant(1990), an STAP computation model is brought forward. The model provides a bridge between STAP algorithms and real parallel systems. Moreover, it can be applied to performance evaluation. During the course of development, scalable cluster-organized multi-processors structure is adopted as hardware architecture. And data-block static allocating is taken as the mapping scheme. Afterwards, some optimization methods about communication and programming are introduced. This system can meet the real-time requirement, its scalability is good, and it facilitates the development of similar systems.