Week at a Glance

Monday, August 22, 2011

Tutorials - MAPLD

13:00 - 15:00 Tutorial M1 - New Developments in FPGA Single Event Upsets (SEUs) and Fail-Safe Strategies – Melanie Berg

15:00 - 15:30 Break

15:30 - 17:30 Tutorial M2 - Spaceflight Design Verification Technique – Omar Haddad

17:30 End of Tutorials

18:30 - 20:00 Evening Reception

Tutorials - ReSpace

13:00 - 15:00 Tutorial R1 - Andrew Santangelo - Satellite Design and Modeling with QuickSat dB

15:00 - 15:30 Break

15:30 - 17:30 Tutorial R2 - Jacob Christensen and Bryan Hanson, USU, Space Plug-and-Play Hands-on

17:30 End of Tutorials

18:30 - 20:00 Evening Reception

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Opening Plenary

8:00 - 8:15 Suddarth: Opening Remarks

8:15 - 9:15 Purdy:Designing for Reliability of Zero

9:15 - 10:00 MacGillivray: Is Innovation Enough to Help CubeSats Survive their Evolution

10:00 - 10:30 Break

10:30 - 11:30 Wirthlin: Workforce Preparation and Opportunities

11:30 - 11:45 Reynolds: Track Overview - MAPLD

11:45 - 12:00 McMahon: Track Overview - ReSpace

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch

MAPLD Session A (Combined) - PLD Devices

13:00 - 13:20 Lake: Aeroflex Non-Volatile MRAM Development

13:20 - 13:40
Ellsworth: Radiation Testing of Aurora Protocol with FPGA MGTs

13:40 - 14:00
Perez: Single-Event Effects Testing of embedded DSP Cores within Microsemi RTAX4000D FPGA Devices

14:00 - 14:20 Wolday: Microsemi RT ProASIC3 Space Qualification Update

14:20 - 14:40 Swift: Cmpendium of XRTC Radiation Results on All Single-Event Effects Observed in the Virtex-5QV

14:40 - 15:00 Allen: Peeling the Onion: Understanding the Layers of Apparent Upsets in the Configuration Readback of the RHBD Virtex-5QV

15:00 - 15:20 Ma: Sandia Rad-Hard, Fast-Turn Structured ASIC – The ViArray

15:20 - 15:50 Break

Workshops

15:50 - 17:50 Moderator-Gallagher: Agile Design Practices and High-Level Verification for Spacecraft Electronics

15:50 - 17:50
Moderator-LaBel: Advanced electronics packaging reliability: Is commercial better than Mil/Aero?

15:50 - 17:50
Moderator-Morgan: Future Directions for Modular Systems in Space

17:50 Adjourn Day 2 (Dinner on your own)

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

ReSpace Session A (Combined) - Onboard Processing

8:00 - 8:20 Ginosar: Qualification and Radiation Testing of a Radiation-Hardened Dual-Core Processor

8:20 - 8:40 Habinc: Using FPGAs and a LEON3FT Processor to Build a "Flying Laptop"

8:40 - 9:00 Mandl: Experiments With A Multicore Onboard Architecture and Near Realtime User Configurability

9:00 - 9:20 Beresini: A manycore space computer with FPGA co-processing

9:20 - 9:40 He: A Unified, Scalable, and Highly Capable Next Generation Avionics Interconnect: The NEXUS Approach

9:40 - 10:00 Czajkowski: Radiation hardened, high performance image processing system for ISR programs

10:00 - 10:20 Marshall: Application of a Tiled Radiation-Hardened Commercial DSP toward Advanced Spaceborne Computing

10:20 - 10:40 Workshop Summary

10:40 - 11:00 Break

Poster Session

11:00 - 12:00 Poster Session

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch

MAPLD Session B - Validation and Verification of FPGAs and PLDs

13:00 - 13:25
Aguirre: A fault injection platform for early evaluation of SEE reliability of deep submicron and FPGA designs

13:25 - 13:50
Walters: Radiation Hardening of FPGA-embedded CPUs via Software, Validated with Fault Emulation

13:50 - 14:15 Foggy: Applying OVM (UVM) to GOES-R C&DH Development

14:15 - 14:40
Habinc: RASTA - An FPGA-based Infrastructure for Development, Prototyping and Validation of Onboard Systems

14:40 - 15:05 Lewis: Creating high fidelity cross coverage models to verify design requirements and test coverage

15:05 - 15:45 Break

15:45 - 16:10 Melnik: Automated Code Reviews for Fail-Safe Designs

MAPLD Session C - Designing with FPGAs and PLDs

16:10 - 16:35
Imran: Scalibility of Sustainable Self-Repair to Mitigate Aging Induced Degradation in SRAM-based FPGA Devicess

16:35 - 17:00
Burke: Highly Reliable Counters in FPGAs

17:00 - 17:25 Imran: A Fault-Handling Methodology by Promoting Hardware Configurations via PageRank

17:25 Adjourn Day 3 (Dinner on your own)

ReSpace Session B - New Technologies

13:00 - 13:25
Chaney: Smart 45nm Foundry CMOS with Mask-Lite(tm) Reduced Mask Costs

13:25 - 13:50
Roberts: A SPA-1 ASIC Operating at 0.5V Fabricated in 130nm Double Gated CMOS

13:50 - 14:15 Hanson: An X-ray Attitude Sensor for Spin Stabilized Satellites

14:15 - 14:40
Vassal: Electrical Performances and Radiation Qualification Test Results of a Highly Integrated and Space Qualified Point of Load Converter

14:40 - 15:05 Whitaker: Single Event Upset Tolerant Sub-100nm Electronics for Spacecraft Subsystems

15:05 - 15:45 Break

15:45 - 16:10 Amort: 90nm RHBD ASIC Design Capability

16:10 - 16:35 Bakhshi: LTDAQ&C & Low Temperature Data Acquisition Controller and Computer

16:35 - 17:00
Strobel: Miniaturized, rad hard DACS module for propulsion electronics

17:00 - 17:25
Ardalan: Radiation Hardened by Design 90nm CMOS ASIM Chip for Spaceborne Sensor Applications

17:25 - 17:50 Czajkowski: Reconfigurable Space Weather and Space Situational Awareness (SSA) system leveraging new technology detectors

17:50 Adjourn Day 3 (Dinner on your own)

Thursday, August 25, 2011

MAPLD Session C (cont.) - Designing with FPGAs and PLDs

8:00 - 8:25 Do: The Details of Triple Modular Redundancy (TMR): An Automated Mitigation Methodology for I/O Signals

8:25 - 8:50 Wang: Beam-tested Recommendations for Managing the Configuration of the RHBD Virtex-5QV

8:50 - 9:15 Ali: Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Design Flow and Design Techniques Using RTAX-DSP FPGAs

9:15 - 9:40 Efram: Achieving Safety-Critical Design with FPGAs

9:40 - 10:05 Imran: Cyclic NMR-based Fault Tolerance with Bitstream Scrubbing via Reed-Solomon Codes

10:05 - 10:20 Break

10:20 - 10:45 Sheldon: Cryogenic Operation of Field Programmable Gate Arrays

10:45 - 11:10 Whitaker: Over 3 Gbps Universal Lossless Compressor for Space Use

11:30 Board Buses for Activities (Click here for details)

17:00 - 19:00 Return from Activities

19:00 Adjourn Day 4 (Dinner on your own)

ReSpace Session C - Missions and Systems

8:00 - 8:25 Palmer: Reconfigurable Channel Coding for Small Satellite High Speed Radios

8:25 - 8:50 Czajkowski: Design and fabrication of a 40Gbps Optical Space Plug-and-Play Architecture (SPA-O) Interface Module

8:50 - 9:15 Zheng: A Light-Weight, Low-Power, Low-Cost, Highly Reusable Avionics Architecture

9:15 - 9:40
Kalnins: Modular Latvian nano satellite VENTA-1 with the payloads from Germany, Luxembourg, Sweden and USA

9:40 - 10:05 Pingree: Interplanetary CubeSats: Radiation Considerations for Low-Cost Electronics Beyond Low-Earth Orbit

10:05 - 10:20 Break

10:20 - 10:45 Cassel: The first European Spaceborne Mass Memory System based on NAND-Flash Technology: The Sentinel-2 MMFU

10:45 - 11:10 Stoica: Transformers: Shape-changing Space Systems Built with Robotic Textiles (Ro-textiles)

11:30 Board Buses for Activities (Click here for details)

17:00 - 19:00 Return from Activities

19:00 Adjourn Day 4 (Dinner on your own)

Exhibit Timings

Monday
(08/22/2011) 12:00 - 17:00 (Exhibitors move-in)

Tuesday
(08/23/2011) 7:00 - 16:00

Wednesday
(08/24/2011) 7:00 - 16:00

Thursday
(08/25/2011) 7:00 - 10:30

Thursday
(08/25/2011) 10:30 - 12:30 (Exhibitors move-out)