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Description
Overview
Microsemi once again put together an exceptional interactive experience, reinforcing its on-going commitment to the space industry, on July 30th in Ahmedabad and August 1st in Bangalore. In this technology conference, Microsemi semiconductor experts in space-related products presented information on the company's latest and most innovative space solutions, technology roadmaps, advanced packaging techniques, solutions to combat the effects of radiation, and more. In addition, applications engineers discussed system-level challenges and potential solutions.
Due to the breadth and depth of Microsemi's space products portfolio, there were two concurrent session tracks following the general session. The following archived content is available in the agenda and presentations tabs:
- Agenda and Speaker Bios (click on presentation title for speaker bio)
- Digital Solutions Track
- Power and Mixed-signal Track
For more information, contact spaceforum@microsemi.com
Agenda
10:00 – 10:15 Microsemi – Your Partner for Space System Solutions, Mr Patrick Franks
Patrick FranksDirector of Engineering, Microsemi Power Module Group
Microsemi has the industry's most comprehensive product and technology portfolio for space electronics systems. We are differentiated by innovative solutions that offer exceptional reliability and performance. During our Space Forum we are proud to present the diversity of our space products. Products that include heritage JAN-S diodes, Radiation hardened FPGAs and ASICs, all up to full DC-DC Converters and Power Systems. The Space Forum is contrived to be a full technical exchange. So comments, questions and observations from you, our valued customers are strongly encouraged. Please challenge our technical team until you are convinced that Microsemi is your partner for Space System Solutions.
About Presenter
Patrick Franks is the Director of Engineering for Microsemi's Power Management Group in La Mirada, California. Mr Franks has 31 years of electronics design and development experience overall, including 25 years specialized in power electronics. His work has included sonar system designs for the British Royal Navy, mine-hunting sonar development, power supply design, and directing the Military Engineering group in COTS module and custom power product development at Martek Power. Pat holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electronics from the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK and a Masters in business administration from Chapman University, CA.
Digital Track
10:30 – 11:15 FPGA Products Update, Ms Minh U. Nguyen
Minh U. NguyenMarketing Manager, Space FPGAs, Microsemi SoC Products Group
The current Microsemi SoC Products Group portfolio of spaceflight FPGAs will be reviewed in detail, covering architecture, features, benefits, radiation and reliability. Recent developments in qualification and processing flows will be discussed. The presentation also provides updates on the newer spaceflight parts—RTAX™-DSP, providing embedded high speed digital signal processing capabilities and RT ProASIC®3, providing reprogrammability with immunity to radiation-induced configuration upsets.
About Presenter
Minh Nguyen joined Actel, now Microsemi in 2006 as an applications engineer. In this role she provided technical support and created application notes to support various space customers before taking on her current role. Nguyen holds a Bachelor's of Science degree in electrical engineering from University of California, Berkeley.
11:15 – 12:00 Technology Roadmap for Digital Space Flight Products, Mr Ken O' Neill
Ken O'NeillDirector of Marketing, Space & Aviation, Microsemi SoC Group
In this presentation we focus on Microsemi's next-generation FPGAs for space and other high-reliability applications. Details of product features, performance, radiation effects and packaging are included. Additionally we cover plans to offer radiation-hardened by design memory devices for space applications, and finally we review plans for radiation-hardened digitally-controlled telemetry and current drive products.
About Presenter
Ken O'Neill joined Actel, now Microsemi, in 1990 as a product marketing engineer and served the company in a variety of product marketing positions before taking on his current role. Prior to joining, Ken was a design engineer with Hewlett-Packard, and prior to that a design engineer for Racal-Comsec Ltd. He holds a Bachelor's degree in electronics engineering from the University of Reading, England.
12:00 – 12:30 Prototyping Solutions for Microsemi Radiation Tolerant FPGAs, Mr Godfree Coelho
Godfree CoelhoSales Manager, Aldec India
During this presentation, Aldec will provide technical details of its solution for prototyping the RTAX-S/SL/DSP and RTSX-SU families. The presentation will provide data from current customers and results from case studies. Aldec will show various prototyping solutions as part of its display.
About Presenter
Godfree Coelho is managing Aldec Inc business in India. Godfree has almost twenty years' experience in sales, product marketing and leading a business operation. He has extensive experience in EDA industry mainly addressing front designs in FPGA and ASIC industry. He also worked for leading test and measurement companies with knowledge about analog, digital and RF test instruments domain.
12:30 – 13:00 Design Techniques for Implementing High-Reliable Designs using Microsemi Space FPGAs, Mr Suresh
Suresh KumarManager, Corporate Applications Engineering, Synopsys
In this session, Synopsys will recommend and describe techniques for the creation of high-reliability applications using Microsemi devices. Topics will include, using FPGA synthesis design tools to perform trade-off analyses that balance safety, performance and design size to avoid cost explosion. While discussing techniques such as signal preservation and on-chip debug for functional verification to insure that the initial system requirements have been achieved.
About Presenter
Suresh Kumar is a corporate applications engineering manager at Synopsys and is responsible for support and product validation efforts for the Synplify Pro and Premier products. Prior to joining Synopsys, he has held positions in product development and consulting at Bharat Electronics and Comit Systems. Suresh has a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli India.
14:00 – 14:30 Integration of Common Spacecraft Inertface & Support Functions, Mr Bertrand Irissou
Ken O'Neill / Minh U. NguyenDirector of Marketing, Space & Aviation, Marketing Manager, Space FPGAs, Microsemi SoC Group
In spacecraft applications, sensors and command interfaces are encountered that are incompatible for direct interfacing to an FPGA. These interfaces require signal conditioning that has traditionally been implemented with discrete semiconductors and simple single function ICs that meet the cold sparing, fault isolation and radiation-tolerance of the space environment. Using suitable IC processes, a higher level of device integration can be enabled to implement these spacecraft interfaces. The programmability of the FPGA can be exploited to configure these analog and power functions increasing their versatility.
About Presenter
Ken O'Neill joined Actel, now Microsemi, in 1990 as a product marketing engineer and served the company in a variety of product marketing positions before taking on his current role. Prior to joining, Ken was a design engineer with Hewlett-Packard, and prior to that a design engineer for Racal-Comsec Ltd. He holds a Bachelor's degree in electronics engineering from the University of Reading, England.
Minh Nguyen joined Actel, now Microsemi in 2006 as an applications engineer. In this role she provided technical support and created application notes to support various space customers before taking on her current role. Nguyen holds a Bachelor's of Science degree in electrical engineering from University of California, Berkeley.
14:30 – 15:00 Next Generation Packaging Technology for Space Applications, Mr Raymond Kuang
Raymond KuangDirector of Packaging Engineering, Microsemi SoC
Building on the successful introduction of CCGA (ceramic column grid array in A1 wire bond) for Space Application, Microsemi is working to introduce Flip Chip CCGA for the next generation RT devices for Space. The presentation will cover package construction for both non-hermetic and hermetic, qualification plans. Input from attendees on their requirements for high pin count packages (especially for Flip Chip ceramic CCGA) for mission critical space application would be welcome. Also our High-Reliability packaging roadmap will be presented.
About Presenter
Raymond Kuang joined Actel, now Microsemi in 1997 and brings 17 years of experience in the semiconductor industry to Microsemi. For the past 12 years, he has focused on Microsemi's FPGA packaging technology. Prior to joining Actel/Microsemi, Kuang was employed at LSI Logic in the assembly manufacturing division. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from University of California, Davis.
15:00 – 15:30 Radiation Characterization & Mitigation Techniques Sessions, Mr Ken O' Neill & Ms Minh U. Nguyen
Ken O' Neill & Minh U. NguyenDirector of Marketing, Space & Aviation & Marketing Manager, Space FPGAs, Microsemi SoC Group
The RT ProASIC3 FPGAs have been tested extensively to show data retention of the Flash cells in harsh space environments. This presentation will cover an experiment where RT ProASIC3 FPGAs were exposed to gamma ray radiation for Total Ionizing Dose (TID) effects followed by high temperature operating life testing. Some of these devices went through more than 1000 hours of testing under high temperature. The results assure the reliability of the Flash cells and the overall RT ProASIC3 FPGA family in radiation environment.
About Presenter
Ken O'Neill joined Actel, now Microsemi, in 1990 as a product marketing engineer and served the company in a variety of product marketing positions before taking on his current role. Prior to joining, Ken was a design engineer with Hewlett-Packard, and prior to that a design engineer for Racal-Comsec Ltd. He holds a Bachelor's degree in electronics engineering from the University of Reading, England.
Minh Nguyen joined Actel, now Microsemi in 2006 as an applications engineer. In this role she provided technical support and created application notes to support various space customers before taking on her current role. Nguyen holds a Bachelor's of Science degree in electrical engineering from University of California, Berkeley.
15:45 – 16:15 Programming Software Qualifications for Space FPGAs, Mr Solomon Wolday
Ken O' Neill & Minh U. NguyenDirector of Marketing, Space & Aviation & Marketing Manager, Space FPGAs, Microsemi SoC Group
This session will present all the different types of qualification tests that are performed on the Space FPGAs. These reliability tests are performed on programmed FPGAs using designs that maximize utilization of the device features. A list of programming software that is qualified using the above designs and reliability experiments will be presented.
About Presenter
Ken O'Neill joined Actel, now Microsemi, in 1990 as a product marketing engineer and served the company in a variety of product marketing positions before taking on his current role. Prior to joining, Ken was a design engineer with Hewlett-Packard, and prior to that a design engineer for Racal-Comsec Ltd. He holds a Bachelor's degree in electronics engineering from the University of Reading, England.
Minh Nguyen joined Actel, now Microsemi in 2006 as an applications engineer. In this role she provided technical support and created application notes to support various space customers before taking on her current role. Nguyen holds a Bachelor's of Science degree in electrical engineering from University of California, Berkeley.
16:15 – 16:45 Implementing Designs into Today's Leading Edge Space Qualified FPGAs, Mr Tim McCarthy
Mr Harish MettuThis session will introduce design techniques to maximize performance and minimize power consumption for designs targeting Microsemi's Space Qualified FPGAs. Topics will include efficient use of internal resources and design flows that minimize the time to achieve timing closure and promote design re-use.
16:45 – 17:15 Distribution Issues between Central Power and POL Architectures, Mr Brian Wilkinson
Brian WilkinsonStrategic Applications Manager, Microsemi High-Reliability Group
Digital systems are evolving to demand lower bias voltages and higher operating current levels. Traditional centralized power solutions require downstream Point-of-Load regulators to meet more stringent static and dynamic regulation requirements. This presentation showcases Microsemi's product plan to address these requirements and discusses various related application issues.
About Presenter
Brian Wilkinson is the strategic applications manager for Microsemi's High-Reliability Group as of 2012. Wilkinson was an FAE supporting products from AMSG, HRG, RFIS and PPG with a special focus on power devices since joining Microsemi in 2007. Prior to that, he worked on missile systems at British Aerospace and was associated with a number of other semiconductor companies. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in semiconductor devices from the University of Bradford, Bradford, England.
Power & Mixed Signal Track
10:30 – 11:00 Microsemi Leadership in Discrete Products for Space Applications, Mr Ronan Dillon
Ronan DillonDirector of Technology, Microsemi High-Reliability Group
Microsemi HRG continues to be the leader in the supply of high reliability discrete semiconductors to the space market. This presentation will review Microsemi HRG's continued support for the DLA Land and Maritime's certification program and discuss key technical aspects of Microsemi discrete semiconductor offering.
About Presenter
Ronan Dillon is Director of Technology and PLM for Hermetic Products with Microsemi Hi-Rel Group. He has over 20 years' experience in the assembly, test and screening of high reliability discrete semiconductor components. Ronan graduated from the University of Limerick in 1988 with a bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and with a Master's Degree of Business Administration in 1998. In January, 2011 Ronan became Director of Applications Engineering for the Hi-Rel Group of Microsemi Corporation. He then became Director of Technology for the Hi-Rel Group in January 2012 and added Product Line Management responsibility for Hermetic products in October 2012.
11:00 – 11:45 Radiation Hardened Discrete Products & Hybrids Roadmap, Mr Al Ortega
Al OrtegaProduct Line Manager, Microsemi High-Reliability Group
This session will discuss changes and new products that are planned for Microsemi's Hi-Rel group. Product lines discussed will include: Rad- Hard MOSFET's, Rad- Hard Bipolar transistors, Rad-Tolerant Hybrid products & Gallium Nitride products that are currently in development. The Hi-Rel group is focused on developing high efficiency RH/ RT power conversion products for the military & commercial space industry.
About Presenter
Al Ortega is a Product Line Manager for Microsemi's High-Reliability Group, covering radiation-hardened products. He has 30 years of experience in a variety of positions with Commercial High-Rel companies that include power supply design, product engineering, power semiconductor applications and 10 years in high-reliability semiconductor product development. Al holds a Bachelor degree in electrical engineering from Northeastern University.
11:45 – 12:15 Analog Mixed Signal Space Product Update, Mr Bertrand Irissou
Brian WilkinsonStrategic Applications Manager, Microsemi High-Reliability Group
This session will cover an update to the legacy SG product line including the new radiation-hardened versions of our SGR product line. We will also look at the new product development roadmap focusing on system level solutions – the space system manager – for satellites. Finally an overview of AMSG High-Reliability's custom ASIC solutions for space customers.
About Presenter
Brian Wilkinson is the strategic applications manager for Microsemi's High-Reliability Group as of 2012. Wilkinson was an FAE supporting products from AMSG, HRG, RFIS and PPG with a special focus on power devices since joining Microsemi in 2007. Prior to that, he worked on missile systems at British Aerospace and was associated with a number of other semiconductor companies. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in semiconductor devices from the University of Bradford, Bradford, England.
12:15 – 13:00 Microsemi Standard Isolated DC/DC Portfolio & Roadmap, Mr Patrick Franks
Patrick FranksDirector of Engineering, Microsemi Power Module Group
The SA50 series of 50W DC - DC converters, launched last year, has found a broad application in new space programs. Several of these projects have capitalized on the unique capability of this product to be rapidly customized to particular requirements.Our SB30 series of Isolated Triple Output, POL DC - DC Converters is now available to optimize power distribution for digital processors.We present both of these products in the context of their system application.
About Presenter
Patrick Franks is the Director of Engineering for Microsemi's Power Management Group in La Mirada, California. Mr Franks has 31 years of electronics design and development experience overall, including 25 years specialized in power electronics. His work has included sonar system designs for the British Royal Navy, mine-hunting sonar development, power supply design, and directing the Military Engineering group in COTS module and custom power product development at Martek Power. Pat holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electronics from the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK and a Masters in business administration from Chapman University, CA.
14:00 – 14:30 Microsemi's Approach to ELDRS Testing for Small Signal Transistors, Mr Al Ortega
Al OrtegaProduct Line Manager, Microsemi High-Reliability Group
Microsemi's Bipolar product line has undergone a significant amount of design & characterization for radiation effects performance to TID & ELDRS effects. We are now planning to test products in-house with a new Cobalt- 60 low- dose irradiator. This discussion will explain our plans for characterizing our bipolar product line to two different levels of Low- Dose radiation effects and provide standard lot- tested products with ELDRS ratings.
About Presenter
Al Ortega is a Product Line Manager for Microsemi's High-Reliability Group, covering radiation-hardened products. He has 30 years of experience in a variety of positions with Commercial High-Rel companies that include power supply design, product engineering, power semiconductor applications and 10 years in high-reliability semiconductor product development. Al holds a Bachelor degree in electrical engineering from Northeastern University.
14:30 – 15:00 SSPA Solutions and Space Relays, Mr Kent Brooten
Kent BrootenNational Sales Manager, Microsemi Power Module Group
Telecommunication satellites carry an array of Solid State Power Amplifiers (SSPAs) driving microwave transmissions back to earth. These amplifiers typically require triple, low noise supply potentials to drive and bias RF power stages. High efficiency, low mass and competitive pricing drive the design of power supplies for this application. We present our Standard SSPA power supply which is customizable for particular SSPA applications. We also present an overview of our line of Electromechanical Relays for space applications.
About Presenter
Kent Brooten is the Sales and Marketing Manager for Microsemi's Power Management Group in La Mirada, California. Mr. Brooten has 36 years of electronics experience including design and development, technical support and sales and marketing. He designed electronics for line printers, In Circuit Emulators, PCs and hand held portable data terminals. He worked as a Field Application Engineer, Sales Engineer and Sales Manager at Military and Space suppliers. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, Illinois.
15:00 – 15:30 Distribution Issues between Central Power and POL Architectures, Mr Brian Wilkinson
Brian WilkinsonStrategic Applications Manager, Microsemi High-Reliability Group
Digital systems are evolving to demand lower bias voltages and higher operating current levels. Traditional centralized power solutions require downstream Point-of-Load regulators to meet more stringent static and dynamic regulation requirements. This presentation showcases Microsemi's product plan to address these requirements and discusses various related application issues.
About Presenter
Brian Wilkinson is the strategic applications manager for Microsemi's High-Reliability Group as of 2012. Wilkinson was an FAE supporting products from AMSG, HRG, RFIS and PPG with a special focus on power devices since joining Microsemi in 2007. Prior to that, he worked on missile systems at British Aerospace and was associated with a number of other semiconductor companies. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in semiconductor devices from the University of Bradford, Bradford, England.
15:45 – 16:30 Integration of Common Spacecraft Interfaces & Support Functions, Mr Bertrand Irissou
Ken O' Neill & Minh U. NguyenDirector of Marketing, Space & Aviation & Marketing Manager, Space FPGAs, Microsemi SoC Group
This session will present all the different types of qualification tests that are performed on the Space FPGAs. These reliability tests are performed on programmed FPGAs using designs that maximize utilization of the device features. A list of programming software that is qualified using the above designs and reliability experiments will be presented.
About Presenter
Ken O'Neill joined Actel, now Microsemi, in 1990 as a product marketing engineer and served the company in a variety of product marketing positions before taking on his current role. Prior to joining, Ken was a design engineer with Hewlett-Packard, and prior to that a design engineer for Racal-Comsec Ltd. He holds a Bachelor's degree in electronics engineering from the University of Reading, England.
Minh Nguyen joined Actel, now Microsemi in 2006 as an applications engineer. In this role she provided technical support and created application notes to support various space customers before taking on her current role. Nguyen holds a Bachelor's of Science degree in electrical engineering from University of California, Berkeley.
16:30 – 17:15 Gallium Nitride Applications & Reference Designs, Mr Al Ortega
Al OrtegaProduct Line Manager, Microsemi High-Reliability Group
Gallium Nitride is still a new technology with exciting potential for high efficiency applications of POL's & DC-DC Converters. This talk will explain some of the application testing that has been accomplished with our DC-DC converters and how we plan to move forward with this new technology.
About Presenter
Al Ortega is a Product Line Manager for Microsemi's High-Reliability Group, covering radiation-hardened products. He has 30 years of experience in a variety of positions with Commercial High-Rel companies that include power supply design, product engineering, power semiconductor applications and 10 years in high-reliability semiconductor product development. Al holds a Bachelor degree in electrical engineering from Northeastern University.