Session A. Applications: Military & Aerospace I
(Wednesday morning, September 7)
Session Chairs:
Tanya Vladimirova, University of Surrey
Hans Tiggeler
John Lewis, Federal Aviation Administration
9:00 AM
"Welcome to MAPLD"
Richard B. Katz, NASA Office of Logic Design
9:15 AM
Welcome and Opening Remarks - "NESC – Safety and Mission Success through Engineering
Excellence"
Ralph R. Roe
NASA Engineering and Safety Center
9:50 AM
Submission 220
"An FPGA Based Processor for Hubble Space Telescope Autonomous Docking – a Case Study"
Jonathan F. Feifarek and Timothy C. Gallagher
Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company
10:15 AM
BREAK in the Atrium Ballroom
10:50 AM
Submission 140
"On the Use of Reconfigurable Hardware in Sensor System Integration for Airliner Cabin
Environment Research"
Sin Ming Loo
FAA Center of Excellence for Airliner Cabin Environment Research
Boise State University
11:15 AM
Submission 162
"Development of the Malleable Signal Processor (MSP) for the Roadrunner On-Board Processing
Experiment (ROPE) on the Tacsat-2 Spacecraft"
R.L. Coxe1, G.H. Romero1, A. Pakyari1, S.D. Chang1, G.E. Galica1, J.M. Glynn1, B.D. Green1, M.
Leary2, J. Lyke3, and D. Fronterhouse4
1
Physical Sciences Inc.
2
Newgrange Design Inc.
3
AFRL/VSSE
4
Scientific Simulations Inc.
11:40 AM
Submission 208
"Radiation Tolerant Intelligent Memory Stack (RTIMS)"
Tak-kwong Ng and Jeffrey A. Herath
NASA Langley Research Center
12:05 AM
"The Application Engineer's View" Returns
12:25 PM
Lunch In The Atrium Ballroom - Asian Adventure
Session B. Logic Design and Processors
(Wednesday afternoon, September 7)
Session Chairs:
Keith Bergevin - Defense Microelectronics Activity (DMEA)
Creigh Gordon - Air Force Research Laboratory/Space Vehicles Directorate/Space Electronics Branch
1:50 PM
Submission 179
"Safe and Efficient One-Hot State Machine"
Jason Xin Zheng, Sunant Katanyoutanant, and Martin Le, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
2:15 PM
Submission 170
"Verification of Moderate Complexity IP: Case Study, MIL-STD-1553B Interface"
Rod Barto, NASA Office of Logic Design
2:40 PM
Submission 241
"Accessible Formal Verification for Safety-Critical FPGA Design"
John Lach1, Scott Bingham1, Carl Elks1, Travis Lenhart1, Thuy Nguyen2, Patrick2
1
University of Virginia
2
Electricité de France
3:05 PM
Submission 216
"Evaluation of Error Detection Strategies for an FPGA-Based Self-Checking Arithmetic and
Logic Unit (ALU)"
Varadarajan Srinivasan, Julian Farquharson, William H. Robinson, and Bharat L. Bhuva
Vanderbilt University
3:30 PM
BREAK in the Atrium Hall
4:05 PM
BIRDS OF A FEATHER SESSION #1
5:35 PM
Submission 150
"Scientific Computing in Space Using COTS Processors"
Jeremy Ramos. Roger Sowada, and David Lupia, Honeywell
6:00 PM
Submission 212
"Configurable Soft Processor Arrays Using the OpenFire Processor"
Stephen Craven, Cameron Patterson, and Peter Athanas
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
6:25 PM
Submission 189
"Fixed and Floating Point for VHDL"
Jim Lewis1 and David Bishop2
1
SynthWorks Design Inc.
2
Eastman Kodak
6:50 PM
END DAY 1
Session C. Reconfigurable Computing, Evolvable
Hardware, and Security
(Thursday morning, September 8)
Session Chairs:
Olaf Storaasli - Oak Ridge National Laboratory
John Harkins - Department of Defense
Robert Hodson - NASA Langley Research Center
8:00 AM
Submission 215
"Survey of C-based Application Mapping Tools for Reconfigurable Computing"
Brian Holland, Mauricio Vacas, Vikas Aggarwal, Ryan DeVille, Ian Troxel, and Alan D. George
University of Florida
8:25 AM
Submission 178
"Analysis of an FPGA Based Reconfigurable Computer with Sorting Algorithms"
John Harkins, Tarek El-Ghazawi, Esam El-Araby, and Miaoqing Huang
The George Washington University
8:50 AM
Submission 117
"Synthesis of False Target Radar Images Using a Reconfigurable Computer"
Douglas J. Fouts, LT Kendrick R. Macklin, and Daniel P. Zulaica
U.S. Naval Postgraduate School
9:15 AM
Submission 187
"Scientific Computing Beyond CPUs: FPGA Implementations of Common Scientific
Kernels"
Melissa C. Smith, Jeffrey S. Vetter, and Sadaf R. Alam
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
9:40 AM
BREAK in the Atrium Hall
10:15 AM
Submission 203
"FPGA Acceleration of Information Management Services"
Richard W. Linderman1, Mark H. Linderman1, and Chun-Shin Lin2
1
Air Force Research Laboratory, Information Directorate
2
University of Missouri, Columbia
10:40 AM
Submission 229
"Design and Tradeoff Analysis of JPEG2000 on Hardware-Reconfigurable Systems"
R. DeVille, V. Aggarwal, I. Troxel, and A. George
University of Florida
Session C. Reconfigurable Computing, Evolvable
Hardware, and Security
(Thursday morning, September 8)
Session Chairs:
Olaf Storaasli - Oak Ridge National Laboratory
John Harkins - Department of Defense
Robert Hodson - NASA Langley Research Center
11:05 AM
Submission 136
"Demand and Penalty-Based Resource Allocation for Reconfigurable Systems with Runtime
Partitioning"
John Ardini
Draper Laboratory
11:30 AM
Submission 171
"Implementation of Polymorphic Matrix Inversion using Viva"
Arvind Sudarsanam and Dasu Aravind
Utah State University
11:55 AM
Lunch In The Atrium Ballroom - Taste of the Mediterranean
Session D. Reliability
(Thursday afternoon, September 8)
Session Chair:
Bryan A. Robertson, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
1:30 PM
Submission 118 (Invited History Talk)
"Hubble Space Telescope"
Steven Beckwith
Space Telescope Science Institute
2:45 PM
Submission 222
"Reliability Analysis on the Aeroflex ViaLinkTM FPGA"
Ronald Lake
Aeroflex Colorado Springs
3:10 PM
Submission 217
"A Study of the Impact of Temperature on FPGA-based TMR Designs"
Amr A. Ahmadain and Karen A. Tomko
University of Cincinnati
3:35 PM
BREAK in the Atrium Hall and EXHIBITS
4:30 PM
BIRDS OF A FEATHER SESSION #2
6:00 PM
Dinner Banquet
and
Panel Session - "Why Are Space Stations So Hard?"
9:00 PM
End Day 2
Session E: Radiation and Mitigation Techniques
(Friday morning, September 9)
Session Chairs:
Gary M. Swift, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Massimo Violante, Politecnico di Torino - DAUIN, Torino, Italy
8:00 AM
Submission 202
"Improving FPGA Design Robustness with Partial TMR"
Brian Pratt1, D. Eric Johnson1, Michael J. Wirthlin1, Michael Caffrey2, Keith Morgan1,2, and Paul
Graham2
1
Brigham Young University
2
Los Alamos National Labs
8:25 AM
Submission 205
"Comparison of the Proton SEU Performance of the Microblaze and the Leon2 Soft Core
Processor as implemented on a Xilinx Virtex-II SRAM based FPGA"
Dave M. Hiemstra, Fayez Chayab, and Kristopher Bates
MDA Space Missions
8:50 AM
Submission 134
"Radiation Hardened FPGA Technology"
Leonard Rockett1, Dinu Patel1, Steven Danziger1, Balwinder Sujlana1,Les Palkuti2, John
McCollum3, J.J. Wang3, Brian Cronquist3, and Frank Hawley3
1
BAE SYSTEMS
2
Defense Threat Reduction Agency
3
Actel Corporation
9:15 AM
Break in the Amphitheater Pre-Function Area and Poster Session
10:45 AM
Submission 238
"Single Event Effects Mitigation of a Soft Embedded Processor in the Virtex-II FPGAs"
Sana Rezgui1, Jeffrey George2, Gary Swift3, Kevin Somervill4, and Carl Carmichael1
1
Xilinx, Inc.
2
The Aerospace Corporation
3
Jet Propulsion Laboratory / Caltech
4
NASA Langley
11:10 AM
Submission 240
"Total Ionizing Dose Effect on Programmable Input Configurations"
J.J. Wang, R. Chan, G. Kuganesan, B. Cronquist, and J. McCollum
Actel Corporation
11:35 AM
Submission 155 (Session E)
"Radiation-Induced Multi-bit Upsets in Xilinx SRAM-Based FPGAs"
Paul Graham1, Heather Quinn1, Jim Krone1, Michael Caffrey1, Sana Rezgui2 and Carl
Carmichael2
1
Los Alamos National Laboratory
2
Xilinx Corporation
12:00 PM
Lunch In The Atrium "Rocket Park" - Executive Deli
Session F. Applications: Military & Aerospace II
(Friday afternoon, September 9)
Session Chairs:
David A. Gwaltney, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
Sandi Alexander Habinc, Gaisler Research
1:30 PM
Submission 108 - Invited Mishap Talk
"Computer Overload and The Apollo 11 Lunar Landing: An Insider’s View"
Jack Garman
LMIT/JSC/MSC
2:45 PM
Submission 154
"FPGA Development for High Altitude Subsonic Parachute Testing"
James E. Kowalski, Konstantin G. Gromov and Edward H. Konefat
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
3:10 PM
Submission 157
"Multi-level Simulation of a Real Time Vibration Monitoring System Component"
Bryan Robertson and DeLisa Wilkerson
NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center
3:35 PM
Break in the Atrium "Rocket Park"
4:00 PM
Submission 184
"On-Board Encryption in Satellites"
Roohi Banu, Tanya Vladimirova, and Martin Sweeting
Surrey Space Centre, University of Surrey
4:25 PM
Submission 242
"A Novel High-level Dynamic Hardware-Software Remapping Technique for Mission
Critical Reconfigurable Computers"
Luis E. Cordova and Duncan A. Buell
University of South Carolina
4:50 PM
Submission 133
"Multi-spectral Satellite Image Processing on a Platform FPGA Engine"
M. Fleury, R. P. Self, and A. C. Downton
University of Essex
Abstract: fleury_a.html
5:15 PM
CONFERENCE ENDS