SEFUW: SpacE FPGA Users Workshop, 1st Edition

In the past, two series of events enabled the exchange of highly valuable information and experience among FPGA users, CAD vendors and FPGA vendors: the very successful past four editions of the “ATMEL Users Group workshops” (http://spacefpga.atmel-nantes.fr/spacefpga) and the 2009 “workshop on Fault Injection & Fault Tolerance in space FPGAs” (http://www.esa.int/TEC/Microelectronics/SEMV57KIWZF_0.html). Following that spirit, the initiative expands now toall FPGAs used in space: reprogrammable (SRAM and FLASH based) and one-time programmable (anti-fuse based).

All FPGAs share several design methodologies, yet each of them face specific challenges. The anti-fuse FPGAs are currently heavily used in most electronic equipment for space yet there are other emerging technologies too: Flash-based and SRAM-based.

The aim of this workshop is to address experiences in several topics related to FPGAs for space covering (not limited too):

• general design, verification and test issues and good practices
• performance achievements and potential problems
• power consumptions achievements and potential issues
• design tools performance, good practices and potential limitations
• radiation mitigation techniques, tools and potential limitations(avoiding repetitions of what has already been presented at RADECS, NSREC and SEE Symposium)
• companion non-volatile memory (when required) experience
• package and assembly challenges
• trends of FPGA usage in space applications
• lessons learned: ensuring successful and safe use of FPGA in space applications
• choosing the best FPGA type for our space application

Presentations from at least the major design groups (Primes) are expected, as well as updates from the major FPGA vendors for space: ATMEL, MICROSEMI and XILINX.

A discussion panel will be organized. Topic: Re-configurability for space.

The workshop duration will be 2 days.

Presentations