Military and Aerospace FPGA and Applications (MAFA) Meeting

Preliminary Schedule for Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Last Updated: 11/16/07

 

7:30

Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:15

General Introduction

Ken LaBel and

Mike Sampson

Ken LaBel and Mike Sampson, NASA/GSFC

8:30

Radiation Hardened FPGA Technology for Space Applications

Dinu Patel

Leonard Rockett, Dinu Patel, Steven Danziger, BAE Systems; John McCollum, Brian Cronquist, Actel Corporation

9:00

Advanced ASICs For Obsolete FPGA Replacement

David Wick

David Wick and Thomas Romanko, Honeywell

9:30

Actel Space Product Roadmap

Ken O'Neill

Ken O'Neill, Actel Corporation

10:00

Current Status of the SIRF Program

Joseph J Fabula

Joseph Fabula, Xilinx

10:30

Break

11:00

ATMEL ATF280E Rad-Hard Reprogrammable FPGA

Nicolas Renaud

Nicolas Renaud, ATMEL

11:30

New Reprogrammable and Non-Volatile Radiation Tolerant FPGA RTA3P

Sana Rezgui

Sana Rezgui, J. J. Wang, Brian Cronquist, John McCollum, Actel Corporation

12:00

Lunch with Invited Speaker

1:00

Invited Speaker: “Advanced Techniques for Microelectronic Reliability Investigation”

Martin Leung

M. S. Leung, J. Chaney, G. Eng, B. Foran, N. Ives, M. Mason, S. C. Moss, N. Presser, G. Stupian, T. Yeoh, and M. Zurbuchen , The Aerospace Corporation

1:30

Reconfigurable, High Density, Gigahertz Speed Low Power Radiation Hardened FPGA Technology

Dinu Patel

Rajit Manohar, Clinton W. Kelly, IV, John Lofton Holt, Chris Liu, Achronix Semiconductor Corporation; Leonard Rockett, Dinu Patel, Steven Danziger , S.Ramaswamy, BAE Systems; Ken LaBel, NASA/GSFC

2:00

Innovations in High Rel Power Management

Randy Roberts

Randy Roberts, Intersil Corporation

2:30

Update on the Universal FPGA Support Device for Spaceborne Applications

Joseph Marshall

Joseph Marshall, BAE Systems

3:00

Break

3:30

Radiation Hardened Field Programmable Object Array (FPOA) for Space Processing

David Lupia and

Sean Riley

David Lupia, Honeywell; Sean Riley, MathStar

4:00

The Gaisler Research Roadmap for FPGA IP-Cores

Sandi Habinc

Sandi Habinc and Jiri Gaisler, Gaisler Research AB

4:30

Prototyping RTAX using Flash Devices

Jerry Kaczynski (Presented by

Olga Melnikova)

Jerry Kaczynski, Aldec, Inc.

5:00

Wrap-up

 


Military and Aerospace FPGA and Applications (MAFA) Meeting

Preliminary Schedule for Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Last Updated: 11/16/07

 

7:30

Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:15

General Introduction

Ken LaBel and

Mike Sampson

Ken LaBel and Mike Sampson, NASA/GSFC

8:30

Overviews on FPGA activities in ESA and European Missions

David Merodio Codinachs

David Merodio Codinachs, ESA

9:00

Overview of Radiation Hardened Electronics for Space Environments

Andrew S. Keys

Andrew S. Keys, NASA/MSFC

9:30

Improving FPGA Reliability in Harsh Environments Using Triple-Modular Redundancy with More Frequent Voting

Michael Wirthlin

Brian Pratt, Michael Wirthlin, Bringham Young University; Paul Graham, Keith Morgan, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Severn Shelley, Bringham Young University and Los Alamos National Laboratory

10:00

Correcting Single-Event Upsets Using Self-Hosting Partial Dynamic Reconfiguration

Jonathan Heiner (presented by

Michael Wirthlin)

Jonathan Heiner, Nathan Collins, Michael Wirthlin, Brigham Young University

10:30

Break

11:00

Optimized Configuration Management for SEU Mitigation in Xilinx Virtex-4 FPGA and Self-Scrubbing

Chen Wei Tseng (presented by

Greg Allen)

Chen Wei Tseng, Carl Carmichael, and Gary Swift, Xilinx, Inc.

11:30

Comparing the Robustness of Upset Mitigation via RHBD and TMR System Error Rates for SRAM-based Re-configurable FPGAs

Gary Swift

Gary Swift, Xilinx, Inc.; Larry Edmonds, JPL/Caltech

12:00

Lunch with Invited Speaker

1:00

Invited Sponsor Talk

 

 

1:30

The Response of Deep Sub-Micron FGPAs to High Energy Atmospheric Neutrons

Joe Fabula

Joseph Fabula, Austin Lesea, Xilinx, Inc.

2:00

Upset Measurements on a Mil/Aero Virtex-4 FPGAs Incorporating 90 nm Features and a Thin Epitaxial Layer

Greg Allen

Gregory Allen, JPL; Gary Swift, Carl Carmichael, Chen Wei Tseng and Greg Miller, Xilinx, Inc.

2:30

New Reliability Vehicle from Aeroflex Improves FPGA ViaLink™ Perceptivity

Ronald Lake

Ronald Lake, Aeroflex Colorado Springs

3:00

Break

3:30

Monitoring Temperature in SRAM-based FPGAs Using a Ring-oscillator Design

Douglas J Sheldon, Ramin Roosta, Michael J Sadigursky & Arjang Farrokhy

Douglas J Sheldon, Ramin Roosta, Michael J Sadigursky, Arjang Farrokhy, JPL

4:00

Reliability of FPGA Assembled with Tim-lead and Pb-free Solders Tested based on IPC 9701A Specification

Reza Ghaffarian

Reza Ghaffarian, JPL

4:30

Actel RTAX4000S Generic Burn-In Test Feature

Solomon Wolday

Solomon Wolday, Don Kinell, and Antony Wilson, Actel Corporation

5:00

Wrap-up

 


Military and Aerospace FPGA and Applications (MAFA) Meeting

Preliminary Schedule for Thursday, November 29, 2007

Last Updated: 11/16/07

 

7:30

Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:15

General Introduction

Ken LaBel and

Mike Sampson

Ken LaBel and Mike Sampson, NASA/GSFC

8:30

FPGA Insertion Guidelines

Douglas J Sheldon

Douglas J Sheldon, JPL

9:00

Microelectronics Research Development Corporation (Micro-RDC) Capabilities

Keith Avery

Keith Avery, Micro-RDC

9:30

The LEON3 processor and SpaceWire Codec and their Application

Sandi Habinc

Sandi Habinc and Jiri Gaisler, Gaisler Research AB

10:00

Sandia Xilinx Virtex FPGA SEU and Passive Devices Experiment on the International Space Station

Ethan Blansett

Ethan Blansett, Sandia National Laboratories

10:30

Break

11:00

A Comparative Study of Field Programmable Gate Array Error Cross Sections: Putting Data into Perspective

Melanie Berg

Melanie Berg, MEI Technology Inc., NASA/GSFC

11:30

Using the Xilinx FPGA as a Test “System”

Paul Eaton

Paul Eaton, Microelectronics Research Development Corporation

12:00

Lunch

1:00

RadSafe™ Technology and JPEG200 image compression ASSP

Ran Ginosar

Ran Ginosar, Ramon Chips Ltd.

1:30

Radiation and Reliability Issues for SOI in Next Generation FPGAs

Hugh Barnaby

Hugh Barnaby, Bert Vermeire, Arizona State University; Philippe Adell, JPL

2:00

Lessons Learned with Performance Prediction and Design Patterns on Molecular Dynamics

Brian Holland

Brian Holland, CHREC University of Florida

2:30

Standardized test system for optical link in radiation environment based on FPGA

Jingbo Ye

Jingbo Ye, Southern Methodist University

3:00

Intermittency Detection and Mitigation in FPGAs

James P. Hofmeister

James P. Hofmeiser, Ridgetop Group, Inc.

3:30

Break

4:00

Flexible Fault Tolerance Using the ARTEMIS Reconfigurable Payload Processor

Ian Troxel

Ian A. Troxel, Matthew Fehringer, Michael T. Chenoweth, SEAKR Engineering

4:30

Survey results and open discussion

 

 

5:00

Wrap-up