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2015 Space Forum Presentations Available to Download

The Space Forum 2015 presentations are now available to download from both sessions: 1). Digital Track Session 2).Timing, Mixed Signal & Power Track Session. For any questions, please email us at: spaceforum@microsemi.com

Speaker Bio's

Space Forum Speaker Biographies

Minh Nguyen
Sr. Marketing Manager, Space and Aviation, Microsemi

Minh Nguyen joined Microsemi in 2006 as an applications engineer. In this role she provided technical support and created application notes to support space customers. In 2010, Nguyen took on a product marketing role supporting space and aviation FPGAs. Nguyen holds a Bachelor's of Science degree in electrical engineering from University of California, Berkeley.

Ken O'Neill
Director of Marketing, Space FPGAs, Microsemi SoC Products Group

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.

Peter Cash
Director of Advanced Technology, Space and Defense, Microsemi Frequency and Timing Division

Peter joined Microsemi in 1994 as an Electrical Design Engineer. He has lead the efforts to develop and produce Microsemi's space and defense frequency and timing crystal oscillators and atomic clocks. He holds a Bachelor's of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Clarkson University in Potsdam, NY.

Raymond Kuang
Director, Packaging Engineering, Microsemi SoC Products Group

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.

Brian Wilkinson
Senior Director Technical and Strategic Marketing and Applications Discrete Products Group – Power Discrete and Modules

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.

Luca Cattaneo
Area Technical Manager, Europe, Microsemi Corporate Sales

Luca Cattaneo joined Actel, now Microsemi, in October 2000 as high level design specialist and promoted in the current role in 2001. Luca brings over 18 years' experience in HW architectures & design, ASIC/FPGA, and standards in several market sectors Consumer, Industrial, Military, Space. Prior to joining, Luca was a senior member in the R&D department of Lucent Technologies & Bell Labs, and prior to that design engineer within R&D at Siemens-Italtel. Luca has several granted patents and holds a Master's of science in electronics engineering from Polytechnic of Milan, Italy.

Al Ortega
Product Line Manager, Microsemi High-Reliability Division

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.

Dorian Johnson
Product Marketing Manager, Microsemi Analog Mixed Signal High-Reliability ICs

Dorian Johnson is a Product Marketing Manager for Hi-Reliability ICs with Microsemi's Analog Mixed Signal Business Unit. She brings over 30 years of experience in product engineering and marketing in the semiconductor industry. Dorian holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Kent Brooten
Sales and Marketing Manager, Microsemi Power Management Group

Kent Brooten is the Sales and Marketing Manager for Microsemi's Power Management Group in Garden Grove, 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.

Jih-Jong Wang Ph. D.
Senior Principal Engineer, Technology Development, Microsemi SoC Products Group

Jih-Jong Wang joined Actel, now Microsemi, in 1995 as a senior staff processing engineer and plays a key role in the R&D, manufacturing and radiation testing on every generation of radiation hard/tolerant antifuse- and flash-based FPGA. He has a Ph. D. degree in Materials Science from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.

Ray DiBugnara
Director of Technology and Radiation Services Microsemi DPG

Ray DiBugnara has decades of experience in both new product and new process development for Military, Aviation and Space discrete semiconductors. This experience extends to Radiation Hardened semiconductor testing and design which included designing and creating Microsemi's current Lawrence Gamma and ELDRS testing lab. In his spare time he writes semiconductor physics computer models including device simulation, heat flow, stress analysis and parametric prediction. Ray is an Electronic Engineering graduate of California Polytechnic University, Pomona, California, and has been awarded seven patents.

Bassam Youssef
Senior Staff Application Engineer, Advanced Applications Team

Bassam joined Actel, now Microsemi, in 2002 as a Senior SQA engineer. In this role he has led, driven and worked on different software projects working with the Software Engineering Organization. Prior to joining Microsemi/Actel, Bassam worked as an Applications Engineer at Altera for a couple of years. He holds a Bachelor's degree in electronics engineering from Georgia Tech and a Master of Science degree in computer engineering from San Jose State.

Nadia Rezzak Ph. D.
Staff device Engineer, Technology Development, Microsemi SoC Products Group

Nadia Rezzak joined Microsemi in 2012 as a device engineer and plays a key role in the R&D and radiation testing on Microsemi's flash-based FPGA. Prior to that, she worked as a research assistant in the radiation and reliability group while pursuing her Ph.D, where she expended her knowledge of radiation effect on electronics. Rezzak holds a Ph. D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN.

Max Zafrani
Director Product Engineering Space Power Discrete and Modules

Max Zafrani joined Microsemi in 2014 as director of product development engineering for discrete space product. Prior to joining Microsemi, Max was the director of engineering for Rad Hard Mosfet at International Rectifier; he has over 25 years of experience in the manufacturing and design of power semiconductors. He earned a Bachelor degree of Science in Electrical Engineering from Wilkes University, Pennsylvania.

Dumitru G. Sdrulla
Director R&D and Device Engineering, Power Discrete and Modules, Bend

Dumitru Sdrulla joined former Advanced Power Technology (now part of Microsemi) in 1990 as the manager of the R&D group and was instrumental in the development and introduction in mass production of all product lines of this department, from power Mosfets, PT and NPT IGBTs, Fast Recovery Diodes, and RF Mosfets, on Silicon and on SiC substrates. He has more than 40 years of experience in power semiconductors and holds a MS degree in EE from Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest, Romania. He holds 14 patents in the field of power semiconductors with two more patent applications in process.

Mathieu Sureau
Director of Engineering for Analog Mixed Signal at Microsemi Corporation.

Mathieu has more than 15 years semiconductor experience and oversees the design and development of Analog and Analog Mixed Signal Semiconductors serving several markets. These products range from pure analog to mixed-signal integrated circuits to complete system solutions in a package on technologies ranging from low voltage CMOS to high voltage, high power, high integration BCD/CMOS, SOI and DI processes. Mathieu manages the design and development of High-Reliability Semiconductors used in Defense, Aerospace, and extreme environment industrial applications including down-hole drilling. He also oversees the development of microcontroller-based sensor interface ICs for a variety of industrial/commercial/automotive applications. More recently, Mathieu's management responsibilities have expanded to the development of power management solutions for commercial storage applications, along with integrated solutions for light-emitting backlit panels. Mathieu holds a Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering from ENSEEIHT, Toulouse, France. He also holds an MBA with concentration in Finance from Santa Clara University.

Steve Gercken
Applications Consultant in the Solutions Group at Synopsys.

He is responsible for the support of FPGA implementation and prototyping products including Synplify Pro, Synplify Premier, Identify, Synphony Model Compiler, HAPs, and ProtoCompiler. Mr. Gercken received his MSEE from the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD and a BSEE from Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA. In his previous positions, Mr. Gercken performed board level, FPGA, and ASIC design work for Northrop Grumman's Electronic Systems group in Baltimore.

Philipp Jacobsohn
Applications Consultant at Synopsys.

His responsibilities include support for products for ASIC prototyping, hybrid prototyping, FPGA synthesis and debugging. Before joining Synopsys, Mr. Jacobsohn held positions at Synplicity, Epson Europe Electronics, Lattice Semiconductors, EBV Elektronik and SEI-Elbatex.

Doug Johnson
Staff Applications Consultant at Synopsys.

He is responsible for application engineering and product support for Synopsys' FPGA implementation products and FPGA-based prototyping products. Mr. Johnson has experience in communication design engineering, electronic design automation (EDA) tools, applications engineering, digital signal processing (DSP) design, intellectual property (IP) licensing and account management. He has a BSEE from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Sharath Duraiswami
Senior Corporate Application Engineer at Synopsys.

Mr. Duraiswami is responsible for key features including high-reliability as part of the Synopsys FPGA tool offerings. Prior to joining Synopsys, Mr. Sharath was responsible for SoC prototyping using emulation platforms like ZeBu/Palladium, ASIC design and verification, FPGA design and board validation at Wipro Technologies. Mr. Sharath holds a Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Bharathiar University India, and a Master's degree in Microelectronics Engineering from Victoria University Australia.

Prof, Steve Parkes
Managing Director, STAR-Dundee.

Steve Parkes is Managing Director of STAR-Dundee Ltd and Professor of Spacecraft Electronic Systems at the University of Dundee. He is the author of the SpaceWire standard, written with inputs from international spacecraft engineers. Steve is currently working on SpaceFibre, the next generation, multi-gigabit/s network technology for spacecraft. He has a BSc and MSc from Lancaster University and PhD from University College Cardiff. Steve is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and a Fellow of the British Computer Society.

Sandi Habinc
Managing Director, Cobham Gaisler.

Sandi Habinc brings 25 of years' experience in the space sector to Aeroflex Gaisler and has been working with virtually all Microsemi FPGAs that are suitable for space flight. He is currently responsible for LEON based system-on-a-chip projects ranging from FPGAs to ASICs. Habinc holds a Master of Science degree in computer engineering from Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Partners

Microsemi distributes Synopsys Synplify Pro MicrosSemi Edition synthesis tools, the Synopsys Identify RTL debugger and Synphony MC High Level Synthesis tools as part of Microsemi's Libero Software Design ToolSuite. The solution helps Microsemi designers to deliver highly optimized results and highly reliable design operation. It also enables the identification of the source of errors that are hard to reach and find. As such, Synopsys views the Microsemi Space Forums as a great opportunity to update Microsemi users on design tool solutions to address key challenges faced by industrial, military and aerospace designers and manufacturers today, such as debug methodologies and design for high-reliability techniques, as well as system-to-silicon verification and time-to-results. Synopsys is participating at all five Space Forum locations: Chantilly VA, Los Angeles CA, Noordwijk, Netherlands and Ahmedabad and Bangalore in India. Synopsys will present on the use of Synplify to "build in" high reliability into Microsemi FPGA designs.

www.synopsys.com/

STAR-Dundee is pleased to be part of this year's Space Forum and will be presenting at all five events in the USA, Europe and India. STAR-Dundee is a leading supplier of spacecraft on-board data-handling technology, delivering a comprehensive range of SpaceWire test and development equipment, chip designs and IP cores to the international aerospace industry. SpaceFibre is a new on-board network technology which runs over both electrical and fibre-optic cables. SpaceFibre is capable of fulfilling a wide range of spacecraft onboard communications applications because of its inbuilt quality of service (QoS) and fault detection, isolation and recovery (FDIR) capabilities. The innovative QoS mechanism provides concurrent bandwidth reservation, priority and scheduled QoS. Novel integrated FDIR support provides galvanic isolation, transparent recovery from transient errors, error containment and "Babbling Idiot" protection. SpaceFibre is backwards compatible with existing SpaceWire equipment at the packet level allowing simple interconnection of SpaceWire devices into a SpaceFibre network. The RTG4 FPGA from Microsemi supports 400 Mbits/s SpaceWire links and using the inbuilt SerDes is capable of running SpaceFibre at up to 3.125 Gbits/s and above 12 Gbits/s with multiple lanes. Steve Parkes, the editor of the SpaceWire standard and the principal engineer behind SpaceFibre, will introduce SpaceWire and SpaceFibre, describe the IP cores available from STAR-Dundee and provide the performance and footprint figures for their implementation in the RTG4 and other Microsemi FPGAs.

www.star-dundee.com/

e2v offers high reliability semiconductors for electronic systems within aerospace, defence and high performance industrial markets. e2v have partnered with Microsemi to present at two of the US Microsemi Space Forum events. Marc Stackler, an e2v Application Engineer, will be giving presentations on e2v's new open protocol, ESIstream©. The Efficient Serial Interface (ESIstream©) combines both very high data rate efficiency and simplified hardware implementation for serial data transmission.

ESIstream© has primarily been designed to interface high speed data converters to FPGA; however it can be used in any system that requires high efficiency data transmission. Data rate efficiency is critical to reduce the number of data transmission lanes and in systems that have data rate limitations. e2v's presentations will focus on ESIstream©'s significant benefit to the satellite industry through optimizing the efficiency of future space systems. They will also speak of ESIstream© reducing the number of logic gates by at least half of that used in other protocols, reducing design time and time to market, as well as power consumption and resource utilization.

Contact e2v for more information.

www.e2v-us.com/contact-us

Gaisler have been regularly presenting at the Space Forum since 2008 and found this event to be an excellent opportunity to show our latest FPGA based products and meet with potential customers. This year we will be exhibiting and presenting in Noordwijk, The Netherlands, where we look forward meeting our European customers both from the space industry and the European Space Agency located next door. We have recently added support for the IGLOO2/RTG4 FPGA technology in our GRLIB VHDL IP core library, which we will present at the Space Forum, and are also currently investigating how to use the RTG4 FPGA to create pre-programmed standard products.

www.gaisler.com/