preferably govern the control of the phase gain and timing events in a coordinated fashion to accomplish the necessary degree of coordination beam steering computer 55 sends commands and synchronizing clock signals over a distributed serial bus 60 to the remote beam control integrated circuits 20 to describe the functionality of the control system in more detail reference will now be made to fig2 which shows the structure of the remote beam control integrated circuit constructed in accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present invention remote beam control integrated circuit is designated in fig2 generally by the reference numeral 200 remote beam control integrated circuit 200 includes a command cmd decoder 210 an id memory preferably a nonvolatile rad hardened eeprom 215 an input control unit 220 an input shift register 225 a first random access memory ram a 230 a second random access memory ram b 235 an output control unit 240 an output shift register 245 a first output multiplexer mux 250 a second output mux 255 a temperature sensor 260 and adjustable delay means 270 all of which are provided on a substrate 205 preferably integrated circuit 200 further includes a number of input gates for receiving differential input signals which are utilized to improve transmission accuracy the input gates include a first command cmd input gate 291 a second command cmd input gate 292 a clock input gate 293 and a transmit.