PROGRAMMABLE TECHNOLOGIES WEB SITE

A scientific study of the problems of digital engineering for space flight systems,
with a view to their practical solution.

Program Summary

Military and Aerospace Applications of

Programmable Devices and Technologies Conference

Please search or scroll down to the talk you are interested in.   Hyperlinks are provided to abstracts and papers.

Conference Overview

The conference will be divided into the following sessions:

Session A. Military & Aerospace Applications

Session B. Devices, Elements, and Technologies

Session C. Radiation Environments and Effects

Session D. Adaptive Computing

Poster Session AB: Military & Aerospace Applications/Devices, Elements, and Technologies

Poster Session CD: Radiation Environments and Effects/Adaptive Computing

Industrial Exhibits.

The conference consists of 42 oral and poster presentations and 10 industrial exhibits.

Note 1: If you do not have the Adobe Acrobat reader, you may download it from Adobe Acrobat Free Reader

Note 2: Most presentations are in .pdf format and may be read with any Acrobat reader, version 2.1 or later.  Two presentations could not be converted to .pdf format (if the problem is solved the .pdf files will be on the www update page) and are in Powerpoint '97 format.  Viewers may be downloaded from the Microsoft www site:  Viewer for Word 97 on PCs using Windows 95/98 or Windows NT    Viewer for PowerPoint 97 on PC's using Windows 95/98 or Windows NT

Registration, 1-4 p.m.
Refreshments
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Tours (2:30 and 4:00 p.m.)
All events at the NASA GSFC Visitor’s Center

Conference Opening Remarks
Welcome - Al Diaz, Director, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Technical Sessions A and B and associated posters (Bldg. 8).
Industrial Exhibits, Posters, and Lunch, and Dinner (Bldg. 28 atrium).

Technical Sessions C and D and associated posters (Bldg. 8).
Industrial Exhibits, Posters, and Lunch (Bldg. 28 atrium).

A0:
Invited Speaker: Dennis Andrucyk
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
"Achieving the Earth Science Vision"

A1:
Joe Bogdanski
JHU/APL
"Space Qualified Large Memory Array Implementation for a Solid State Recorder"

A2:
Marco Figueiredo, Ken Winiecki, Terry Graessle, and Umesh Patel
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
"Study of the Utilization of Adaptive Computing in Space Applications"

A3:
Grason Curtis
Synplicity
"Embedded Synthesis: A New Design Methodology for Deep-Submicron Programmable Logic Devices"

A4:
Raymond J. Andraka, P.E and Dr Richard Phelps
Andraka Consulting Group, Inc and Telephonics
"An FPGA based processor yields a real time high fidelity radar environment simulator."

B0:
Invited Speaker: John Birkner
VP, Co-founder, QuickLogic Corp
"From Simple PALs to High-Speed, High-Density Leading Edge FPGA's, Their Technologies and Applications"

B1:
Jon Ewald
QuickLogic Corporation
"Military-Temperature Plastic FPGAs Provide Same Security, Performance and Reliability as Ceramic FPGAs at Half the Cost"

B2:
David Lamb and G. Kirchner
Theseus Logic and Honeywell Solid State Electronics Center
"Self -Timed Circuits for Adaptive Signal Processing Systems"

B3:
Joseph B. Bernstein
University of Maryland Reliability
Laser Programmable Interconnections Between Metal Lines"

B4:
Anil Reddy
Chip Express Corporation
"LPGA Technology for Military & Aerospace ASIC Applications"

B5:
B. Cronquist, M. Sarpa, J.J. Wang, and R. Katz, et., al.
Actel Corp. and NASA/GSFC
"Modifications of COTS FPGA Devices for Space Applications"

B6:
Peter Alfke and Rick Padovani
Xilinx Corp.
"Radiation Tolerance of High-Density FPGAs"

B7:
Jack McCabe
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
"Radiation Hard Reconfigurable Field Programmable Array"

B8:
David Mavis, Mission Research Corporation
Bill Cox, FPGA Technologies
Dennis Adams, Northrop Grumman Corporation
Richard Green, Aerospace Design Concepts
"A Reconfigurable, Nonvolatile, Radiation Hardened Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) For Space Applications"

C0:
Invited Speaker: Janet L. Barth
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
"An Overview of the Radiation Environment for Spaceflight Electronics"

C1:
J. J. Wang, B. Cronquist, J. McCollum, Actel Corp. D. Patel, and R. Katz,
Actel Corp, Lockheed-Martin Federal Systems, and NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
"Development of Total Dose Hardened Antifuse FPGA"

C2:
Rocky Koga
Aerospace Corp.
"SEFI IN EEPROM"

C3:
P.J. McNulty¹, L.Z. Scheick¹, and D.R. Roth^2
1Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-1911
²Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD, 20723-6099
Monitoring the Natural Radiation Environments in Space Using UVPROM Technology

C4:
Gary Swift
Jet Propulsion Laboratory / California Institute of Technology
"The Use of Advanced Flash Memories in Satellite Applications: Radiation Responses and Mitigation Choices"

D0:
Invited Speaker: Jose Munoz
DARPA, Adaptive Computing Systems
"DARPA'S Adaptive Computing Systems (ACS) Program"

D1:
Brad L Hutchings
Brigham Young University, Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Ltd
"Configurable Computing Topics"

D2:
Patrick W. Dowd, John T. McHenry, Todd M. Carrozzi, William B. Cocks, Frank A. Pellegrino
U.S. Department of Defense, University of Maryland
"Low-Cost Line Speed IP Packet Filtering in ATM Networks"

D3:
Kazem Haji
Southwest Research Institute
"A Reconfigurable Computing Platform for Detection and Direction Finding of Frequency Hopping Signals"

D4:
Jeffrey Walrath and Ranga Vemuri
University of Cincinnati
"A Performance Analysis Environment for Adaptive Computing Systems"

D5:
Jason Scott, Sandeep Neema, Ted Bapty, Janos Sztipanovits
Vanderbilt University
"Model-Integrated Environment for Adaptive Computing"

D6:
David C. Hoffmeister(1,3) and Patrick W. Dowd (2,3)
1: Department of Electrical Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo
2: National Security Agency, Fort Meade, MD
3: Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland at College Park
"An FPGA-based Network Interface for WDM Gigabit Networks"

PAB10:
Morris Clark
Xanthon, Inc.
"Review of a Multi-processor PCI Board"

PCD1:
Neil W. Bergmann and Peter R. Sutton
Cooperative Research Centre for Satellite Systems
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane Australia
"A High-Performance Computing Module for a Low Earth Orbit Satellite using Reconfigurable Logic"

PCD2:
Adrian Stoica, Carlos-Salazar Lazaro, Raoul Tawel
JPL
"Evolvable Electronic Systems"

PCD3:
Richard B. Katz
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
"Failure Modes of Programmable Technologies"

PCD4:
Scott Kniffin and Kusum Sahu
Unisys Federal Systems
"A Compendium of Total Dose Data on EEPROMs for NASA Programs"

PCD5:
Meenakshi Kaul, Vinoo Srinivasan, Sriram Govidarajan, Iyad Ouaiss and Ranga Vemuri
Digital Design Environments Lab (DDEL)
"Partitioning and Synthesis for Run-Time Reconfigurable Computers Using the SPARCS System"

PCD6:
Joseph M. Benedetto
UTMC Microelectronic Systems, Principal Reliability Engineer
"Reliability Analysis of Programmed UTMC PROMs Following Post-Program Conditioning"

PCD7:
P. Layton, D. Strobel, H. Anthony, R. Boss, P. Hsu
Space Electronics Inc.
"TID and SEE data on Rad Tolerant FPGA’s"

PCD8:
S. Shanken, J. Patterson, J. Parkinson, D. Czajkowski
Space Electronics Inc.
"Reprogrammable, Non-Volatile EEPROM Multi-Chip Module (MCM) for Radiation-Hardened Space Applications"

PCD9:
Karen Jefferson, Myong An, Alfredo R. Baeza, and Joseph C. Wehlburg
Sandia National Laboratory
"Real Time Reconfiguarable Image Analysis"

PCD10:
Clay Gloster, Marco Figueiredo
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, NC State University,
SGT Inc. / NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
"Making a Case for Distributed Adaptive Computing in Remote Sensing Science Data Processing"

PCD11
Sanjaya Kumar
Honeywell
"Benchmarking Technology for Configurable Computing Systems"

PCD12: Darren Wesemann
Xanthon, Inc.
"Virtual Processing: Simplified Application Development Across a Community of Resources"

Home
Last Revised: February 03, 2010
Digital Engineering Institute
Web Grunt: Richard Katz