Dr
Rajan Bedi
(Spacechips Ltd.)
15/03/2016, 10:50
The number and diversity of space-grade FPGAs offer many options when architecting satellite sub-systems. One-time programmable anti-fuse, flash and SRAM-based technologies, each with unique fabrics, present many interesting trade-offs when selecting the most appropriate device for your next mission.
Today, space-grade FPGAs are formally available from 350 µm to 28 nm nodes with advertised...
Mr
Florent MAnni
(DC/TV/IN)
15/03/2016, 11:20
The FPGA available for Rad-tolerant or Rad-Hard applications are quite small (with regard to their commercial brothers). Some are SRAM based, many are antifusible based. The development flow described inside the ECSS-Q-60-02 standard is well fitted for this kind of targets. The next generation of FPGA for space application will include bigger FPGA matrix most of them SRAM or flash based. The...
Mr
Alexis Jeandet
(Plasma Physics Laboratory)
15/03/2016, 11:45
Many space instruments using FPGA rely on the RTAX family, from the RTAX-250 to the RTAX-2000D but none of them embed a **RTAX-4000D**. For the first a RTAX-4000D will be onboard the [Solar Orbiter](http://sci.esa.int/solar-orbiter/) spacecraft in the Low Frequency Receiver instrument(**LFR**) developed at the Laboratory of Plasma Physics([LPP](http://www.lpp.fr/)).
The LFR is in charge of...
Mr
Jan Andersson
(Cobham Gaisler AB)
15/03/2016, 12:10
Cobham Gaisler develops the LEON3FT SPARC V8 fault-tolerant
microprocessor that is available both as IP cores part of an IP library (GRLIB) that allows users to design their own custom system-on-chip (SoC) designs, and also as part of ready-made designs and devices. The GRLIB library currently provides template designs that allow users to target Xilinx Virtex-5QV, Microsemi RTAX, RT ProASIC3...
Mr
Florian Seychal
(THALES ALENIA SPACE FRANCE)
15/03/2016, 12:35
A designer's approach is done on the last space-grade FPGA provided by Xilinx: Virtex-5QV.
The presentation gives details of features, performances and power consumptions of real designs developed in Thales Alenia Space.
The methodology used for Xilinx FPGAs is also presented.
Finally, some recommendations are delivered for designers.
Mr
Chris McClements
(STAR-Dundee)
15/03/2016, 14:20
To explore the implementation of SpaceFibre and SpaceWire in the new Microsemi RTG4 FPGA, a demonstration system has been developed which implements the STAR-Dundee SpaceWire and SpaceFibre IP cores on the RTG4 development kit. In addition to the RTG4 development kit, the demonstration system uses the STAR-Dundee SpaceFibre and SpaceWire FMC interface card, STAR Fire SpaceFibre interface and...
Mike Wirthlin
(Brigham Young University)
15/03/2016, 14:45
The Xilinx Zynq programmable system-on-chip offers new capabilities for spacecraft systems by integrating two ARM A9 processors along with programmable logic on the same silicon die. Tightly coupling embedded processors with a programmable logic fabric facilitates hybrid computing systems that use the processors for higher-level sequential processing and the programmable logic for parallel...
Prof.
Luca Sterpone
(Politecnico di Torino)
15/03/2016, 15:10
Flash-based Field Programmable Gate Arrays (Flash-based FPGAs) are becoming more and more interesting for safety critical applications due to their re-programmability features while being non-volatile. However, Single Event Transients (SETs) in combinational logic represent their primary source of critical errors since they can propagate and change their shape traversing combinational paths...
Dr
Guzmán-Miranda Hipólito
(Universidad de Sevilla)
15/03/2016, 15:35
FT-UNSHADES2 is a framework dedicated to fault injection in both ASIC netlists and FPGA devices. This system has been conceived to perform, in the same environment, large injection campaigns and detailed analysis without additional user efforts.
The team at Universidad de Sevilla has created a system that is remotely accessible, avoiding the necessity of having the hardware device present....
Mr
Dirk van den Heuvel
(Topic Embedded Products), Ms
Inge Rutten
(Topic Embedded Systems)
15/03/2016, 16:00
Dyplo is a DYnamic Process LOader, enabling software-like programming capabilities on an FPGA such as threading, dynamic process switching and on-the-fly context switching. This allows seamless integration of FPGA logic in a typical software application without the need of deep FPGA design knowledge. A software API gives you full control over functionality run on the FPGA as well as the data...
Mr
David Dangla
(CNES), Mr
David Merodio Codinachs
(ESA)
16/03/2016, 08:50
Mr
Ken O'Neill
(Microsemi)
16/03/2016, 09:00
Dramatic increases in sensor resolution in remote-sensing space payloads are causing a processing bottleneck, as downlink bandwidth is not keeping pace. Operators require on-board processing so that satellites send processed information, not just raw data. It is a growing challenge for the designers of the hundreds of remote sensing satellite payloads launched each year. Microsemi’s RTG4...
Mr
Bernard BANCELIN
(ATMEL Nantes S.A.S.)
16/03/2016, 10:00
ATMEL keep up on enhancing its AT40K radiation-hardened FPGA family composed of the AT40K, ATF280, AFee560 and ATF697 devices. SpaceFpgaDesigner, the family design software suite, has been significantly enhanced, including Mentor Precision and Figaro latest releases. The new Hardware Macro flow now offers an optimally placed and routed, ready to use, 1553 IP. Analysis are on-going for...
Mr
Ching Hu
(Intel Corporation)
16/03/2016, 11:00
The commercialization of LEO in the recent year has inspired many creative ways to reduce cost while increasing performance of the satellite systems. Traditional satellite system designs have more focus on reliability. The new approach is to focus more on short term performance and compensate reliability with cluster of redundant satellites. Through an overview of various common subsystems,...
Mike Wirthlin
(Brigham Young University)
16/03/2016, 12:00
Modern SRAM Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) provide a large amount of logic, computing, and I/O resources that can be programmed in the field through device configuration. FPGAs are also increasingly including a variety of fixed circuits such as programmable processors and high-speed I/O interfaces to facilitate the development of complex, single-chip programmable systems. Like all...
Mr
Florian Rittner
(Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
16/03/2016, 12:35
Modern SRAM-based FPGAs improve on-board processing (OBP) in space applications through dynamic reconfiguration of the firmware. This provides flexibility and adaptability for new communication experiments. An example for such a novel signal processing platform is the *Fraunhofer On-Board Processor* (FOBP), located in the scientific payload part of the *Heinrich Hertz* satellite mission, with...
Mr
Stephane Humbert
(Syderal SA)
16/03/2016, 14:00
This presentation will address the advantages and disadvantages of flash-based FPGAs versus antifuse FPGAs, in particular regarding radiation resistance.
Using reprogrammable FPGAs provides the ability to perform design update late in the equipment development process, but it also brings several constraints that do not have to be taken into account when using the well-known Microsemi RTAX-S...
Mr
Olivier NOTEBAERT
(Airbus Defence and Space)
16/03/2016, 14:50
Architectural solutions for improving robustness of space computers w.r.t. radiations effects enables the development of high performance computers based on commercial grade digital processing devices such as microprocessors or FPGA's. This can bring a new range of space data processing performance at a reasonable cost. Indeed, several range of space applications require increasing bandwidth...
Dr
Juan Pedro Cobos Carrascosa
(Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia)
16/03/2016, 15:15
SO/PHI (Solar Orbiter Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager) is a filtergraph-based, solar magnetograph aimed at mapping the vector magnetic field and the line-of-sight (LOS) velocity of the solar photospheric plasma. It belongs to the scientific payload of the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter mission which will orbit the Sun at 0.28 astronomical units.
The limited telemetry rate...
Dr
Nektarios Kranitis
(Dept. of Informatics & Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
16/03/2016, 16:10
The huge volume of remote sensing data generated from today’s and future high resolution, high-speed, imagers and the limited spacecraft data storage resources and downlink bandwidth make on-board image compression one of the most challenging on-board payload data processing tasks. Over the last few years, the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) issued two image compression...
Mr
Dario Cozzi
(Univesity of Bielefeld), Mr
Sebastian Korf
(Bielefeld University)
16/03/2016, 16:35
Reconfigurable systems are more and more employed in many application fields, including aerospace. SRAM-based FPGAs represent an extremely interesting hardware platform for this kind of systems, because they offer flexibility as well as processing power. Furthermore, the ability of run time reconfiguration of SRAM-based FPGAs can provide advantages for many applications. The scope of this...
Mr
Amit Kulkarni
(Ghent University)
16/03/2016, 17:00
Dynamic Circuit Specialisation (DCS) allows an FPGA design to be dynamically specialized for a subset of its infrequently changing inputs (parameters). Instead of implementing these parameter inputs as regular inputs, in the DCS approach these inputs are implemented as constants and the design is optimized for these constants. When the parameter values change, the design is re-optimized for...
Mr
David Dangla
(CNES), Mr
David Merodio Codinachs
(ESA)
16/03/2016, 17:25
Mr
David Dangla
(CNES), Mr
David Merodio Codinachs
(ESA)
17/03/2016, 08:50
Mr
Olivier Lepape
(NanoXplore)
17/03/2016, 09:00
NanoXplore will introduce the first member of its Radiation Tolerant NXT FPGA family. This device is the first SRAM based FPGA based on NanoXplore scalable patented architecture and entirely hardened by design in order to mitigate SEL, SEU and SEFI in the user application as well as in the configuration initialization and integrity. The combination of advanced hardening by design techniques...
Mr
Kangsen Huey
(Xilinx, Inc.)
17/03/2016, 10:00
Xilinx Space grade Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) has been utilized by the space community for over 15 years for payload applications requiring extensive amount of FPGA resources. The most current generation space grade FPGA is Virtex-5QV, which was introduced in 2011 which is well received by customers globally and has started to accumulate space flight heritage. This presentation...
Mr
Adrian Evans
(IROC Technologies)
17/03/2016, 11:45
Flash-based FPGAs such as the ProASCI3L family are frequently used in space applications because the flash storage is highly resistant to single-event effects (SEEs). In this presentation we show the results of a study of an ARM® Cortex-M0+® processor core running a benchmark application (Dhrystone) and tested under a heavy-ion micro-beam. Over a million individual ions were fired both at a...
Mr
David Gonzalez-Arjona
(GMV Aerospace and Defence)
17/03/2016, 12:10
Vision Based GNC is becoming the focus of interest for future missions since it will allow mission objectives which cannot be performed by ground because of delays or because the dynamic is too fast for being controlled remotely. On the other hand, the use of information extracted from image in the GNC loop is a challenging issue because images are composed by large amount of data, and,...
Dr
George Lentaris
(National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
17/03/2016, 12:35
Future space robots will rely heavily on computer vision to achieve a high degree of autonomy and efficiency during their mission. Specifically for the Mars rovers of 2020+, ESA plans on using highly accurate localization and mapping algorithms with significantly increased speed. The goal is to provide the rover with the capability to process a mid-resolution stereo image pair in only 1...
Mr
Christopher Stender
(Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS)
17/03/2016, 14:00
Flexible payloads often contain one or more reconfigurable FPGAs. In order to use them for various tasks or to quickly deploy new algorithms, a fast FPGA reconfiguration is essential. Unfortunately, satellite telemetry and telecommand (TM/TC) links usually provide only slow data rates for configuration uploads or might not even be available for the payload operator at any time. Thus the upload...
Mr
Salvatore Danzeca
(CERN)
17/03/2016, 14:50
The particle accelerators and high energy physics (HEP) experiments require advanced instruments using the latest technology. The complex and new applications require custom instrumentation and need constant research and development of new electronics.
To address the need of customization and high processing capability the Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) are a very popular choice in...
Ms
Alexandra Kourfali
(Ghent University / ESA)
17/03/2016, 15:15
SRAM-based logic devices such as FPGAs are susceptible to SEUs and functional interruptions in harsh radiation environments, such as space. Several mitigation techniques have been used in order to sustain the functionality of the design, after SEUs are detected and corrected. However, the majority of these mitigation techniques (e.g. TMR) introduce area overhead in the original design. We...
Prof.
Luca Sterpone
(Politecnico di Torino)
17/03/2016, 15:40
Radiation-induced Soft Errors are widely known since the advent of dynamic RAM chips. Reconfigurable FPGA devices based on SRAM configuration memories are extremely sensitive to these effects resulting in an unwelcome change of behavior in digital logic. Indeed, soft errors occur today as a result of radiation from space or even at sea level. Detection, protection and mitigation of soft errors...
Mr
David Dangla
(CNES), Mr
David Merodio Codinachs
(ESA)
17/03/2016, 16:05
