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Microsemi Space Forum Europe 2017 Presentations

 
Introduction and Welcome Address 

Ken O'Neill, Director of Marketing, Space and Aviation

During the welcome address we provided a brief overview of Microsemi's current product portfolio for space flight applications, discussed some recent successes in the industry in which Microsemi's products played pivotal roles, and looked forward to some of the innovations which are fueling growth and development in the space industry.
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RT FPGA Product Update 

Minh Nguyen, Senior Product Marketing Manager

 

The current Microsemi portfolio of radiation-tolerant FPGAs was reviewed in detail, covering architecture, features, benefits, reliability and qualification. The presentation also discussed recent developments in qualification and processing flows for the latest high-speed signal-processing spaceflight FPGA family—RTG4, integrating Microsemi's fourth-generation flash-based FPGA fabric and high-performance interfaces such as serialization/deserialization (SERDES) on a single chip while maintaining the resistance to radiation-induced configuration upsets in the harshest radiation environments. 
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RT FPGA Radiation Characterization 

JJ Wang, Chief Engineer, Technology Developmen
Ken O'Neill, Director of Marketing, Space and Aviation

This presentation focused on the latest radiation testing methodology and test results for RT FPGAs including RTG4 high-speed radiation-tolerant FPGAs. The RTG4 FPGA family has gone through extensive radiation testing for Total Ionizing Dose (TID) and Single Event Effects (SEE) which include Single Event Latch-up, Single Event Upset, Single Event Transient and Single Event Functional Interrupt for the FPGA fabric and various embedded blocks. The latest updates for in-flight programming were also discussed. 
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Space Power and Point of Load Solutions Product Overview 

Chris Hart, Director of Marketing, Aerospace and Defense



Microsemi's custom design experience on the satellite bus has allowed us to create a dynamic portfolio of standard products and capabilities for providing an entire satellite power solution across all orbits. 
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RTG4 Power Hardware Reference Design 

Brian Wilkinson, Senior Director Technical and Strategic Marketing and Applications

A complete hardware reference design using Microsemi's flight proven hardware for powering the latest Microsemi RTG4 FPGA was presented. The design focuses on creating one of the smallest footprint solutions on the space market for a LEO orbit, while maintaining the critical performance requirements for efficiency, accuracy, and transient performance. 
Download Presentation Here: Microsemi Space Forum 2017 Capable Power Supply Solutions for Space Platforms 

High Precision Frequency and Timing Solutions for Space

Ashley Pollock, Business Development & Marketing Manager, Space Qualified Timing Products

Microsemi has developed Atomic Clocks and High Precision Oscillators for some of the most demanding space applications. This discussion provided an overview of our High Performance Frequency & Timing products and customization capabilities for space applications. 
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Mixed Signal Solutions for Space 

Dorian Johnson, Product Marketing Manager



This presentation covered Microsemi mixed signal ICs for space applications. The discussion focused on product features, status and availability, radiation testing and performance, and tools available to assist customers with evaluation of our mixed signal ICs for specific program requirements. In addition to standard products for applications including telemetry and motor control, we covered our custom capabilities. 
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Achieving Timing Closure for Maximum Performance in RTG4 FPGAs 

Hichem Belhadj, Chief System Architect

In this session, we considered some common timing closure scenarios, and presented effective techniques for optimizing the performance of RTG4 radiation-tolerant FPGAs. Several detailed examples were provided, and guidance on general principles of designing for performance were covered. 
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Next Generation Power Discretes

Chris Hart, Director of Marketing, Aerospace and Defense



Microsemi is a world leader of space discretes, with the largest portfolio of discrete diodes and transistors at over 59 percent of all certified products on the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA)'s QPL/QML lists. By leveraging our Radiation Hardened discrete expertise, we presented an update on our next generation technology, looking at the "New Space" market as well as SWaP improvements for more conventional communication satellites. 
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Post-Integration Reprogramming of RTG4 FPGAs Using DirectC and RISC-V

Ken O'Neill, Director of Marketing, Space and Aviation



There are multiple reasons for why it may be necessary to reprogram after integration, this session described how to reprogram RTG4 FGPAs after integration using DirectC. Download Presentation Here: Microsemi Space Forum 2017 Using DIrectC to Reprogram RTG4

Space Application Focus

Brian Wilkinson, Senior Director Technical and Strategic Marketing and Applications
Hichem Belhadj, Chief System Architect

In this session we provided examples of how the breadth of Microsemi's product portfolio for space applications can be leveraged to create innovative system designs, allowing designers to create space systems with higher performance, lower power, lower cost and smaller footprints, without compromising reliability. 
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Product Demonstrations

Various Microsemi and Partner Presenters

Throughout the day we provided a series of demonstrations of Microsemi radiation-tolerant products, including a telemetry solution using an RTG4 FPGA and an LX7730 Telemetry Manager, a motor control solution using an RTG4 FPGA and an LX7720 Motor Control Manager, a power supply design using an SA50 DC-DC converter, MHP8564 and MHP8565 point of load regulators, and an in-system reprogramming solution for an RTG4 FPGA using a RISC-V microprocessor integrated into a second RTG4 FPGA. Our partners demonstrated data networking using SpaceWire and SpaceFiber protocols, space-rated DDR2 and QDR-II+ memory products operating with RTG4 FPGAs, LEON3FT and LEON4FT microprocessor IP operating in an RTG4 FPGA, and a software tool for analysis of clock-domain crossings in RT ProASIC3 and RTG4 FPGAs.


Cypress radiation-hardened QDR-II+ memory operating with RTG4 FPGAs




Blue Pearl software tool for analysis of clock-domain crossings in RT ProASIC3 and RTG4 FPGAs




Data conversion demonstration using TI high-speed ADC operating with RTG4 FPGAs




3D-Plus space-rated DDR2 memory operating with RTG4 FPGAs




Aldec prototyping solutions for Microsemi radiation-tolerant FPGAs




Data networking demonstration using STAR-Dundee SpaceWire and SpaceFiber protocols in RTG4 FPGAs

 


Gaisler LEON3FT and LEON4FT microprocessor IP operating in RTG4 FPGAs

Speaker Bio's

Space Forum Speaker Biographies

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

Ken O'Neill is Director of Marketing, Space and Aviation with Microsemi, and has supported applications in space, aviation and other high-reliability markets for more than 25 years. O'Neill originally joined Microsemi in June 1990 as an FPGA Product Marketing Engineer, and has held several marketing and field applications engineering positions. Before joining Microsemi, O'Neill served as a Design Engineer with Hewlett-Packard's Computer Peripherals Group. Prior to that, he was a Design Engineer with Racal-Comsec Ltd. O'Neill holds a Bachelor's degree in Electronics Engineering from the University of Reading, England.

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.

Jih-Jong Wang Ph. D.
Chief 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.

Chris Hart
Director of Marketing, Aerospace Products, Microsemi Discrete Products Group

Chris Hart recently joined Microsemi in 2016 with extensive experience in the Aerospace Market. Prior to joining, Chris was the Space Products Marketing Manager with Texas Instruments, and prior to that was a Senior Design engineer for Honeywell's Aerospace Products Division. He holds a Master's and Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Systems Engineering from The University of Florida. 

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.

Ashley Pollock
Business Development & Marketing Manager, Space Qualified Timing Products, Microsemi Frequency and Timing Division

Ashley Pollock joined the Microsemi Sales Team in 2006 and brings over 15 years' experience supporting various applications in high-reliability markets. Before joining Microsemi, Ashley served as the Domestic & International HiRel Key Accounts Manager with Infineon Technologies, HiRel Group.

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.

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.

Partners

3D Plus is a worldwide supplier of advanced high density 3D microelectronic products, and bare die and wafer level stacking technologies meeting the demand for high reliability, high performance and very small size of today’s and tomorrow’s electronics.

www.3d-plus.com

Aldec, Inc., is an industry leader in Electronic Design Verification and offers a patented technology suite including: RTL Design, RTL Simulators, Hardware-Assisted Verification, SoC and ASIC Prototyping, Design Rule Checking, IP Cores, Requirements Lifecycle Management, DO-254 Functional Verification and Military/Aerospace solutions.

www.aldec.com

Blue Pearl Software, Inc. is a provider of design automation software for ASIC, FPGA and IP RTL verification. Our customers are RTL managers and developers, in military & aerospace, semiconductor, medical and communications companies, who wish to avoid costly and time-consuming design spins due to simulation vs. HW mismatches, invalid constraints and clocking issues. All design, development and support of Blue Pearl products is done in the United States of America.

www.bluepearlsoftware.com

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

Cypress is celebrating 35 years of leadership in the discrete memory semiconductor industry.  Today Cypress offers our customers the highest performance and reliability NOR Flash, NAND Flash, SRAM, nvSRAM and F-RAM with discrete memory densities ranging from 4K-bit to 1G-bit in various environments including automotive, avionics and space .  With unmatched quality and supply commitment, as well as a strong plan for future investment in new memory products, Cypress will continue to be an industry leader in discrete memory semiconductors for decades to come.

www.cypress.com

SemiDice is located in the U.S. and Europe, and has a logistical advantage to support the global procurement strategies of their Tier 1 OEM’s in the Military, Aerospace, Medical, Communication and Industrial markets. The internal capability to process, ink, map, probe, visually inspect and dice semiconductor wafers and bare die, along with best-in-class customer service, places SemiDice at the top of their niche industry. Being a privately-owned small business, their flexibility, creativity and service go unmatched according to customer surveys.

www.semidice.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

Texas Instruments is the global semiconductor supplier engineers rely on for products that meet long-operating-life and harsh-environment standards needed for space, avionics and military applications. TI delivers a wide range of innovative, reliable components while maintaining strategies for continuity of supply, including multi-sourced manufacturing. At the Microsemi Space Forum, TI is demonstrating the new 12-bit 6.4-GSPS ADC12DJ3200 with the Microsemi RTG4 FPGA.

http://www.ti.com/lsds/ti/applications/industrial/space-avionics-defense/overview.page

Archive

Archives of previous Space Forum presentations are available for your information:

• 2015 - Space Forum
• 2013 - Space Forum India
• 2013 - Space Forum Europe
• 2013 - Space Forum Russia
• 2012 - Space Forum LA