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The use of FPGA in space
 
Notwithstanding to the general methodology and recommendations outlined in the documents in the "Microelectronics Development Methodology" page, which are mostly applicable to FPGAs as well, specific considerations apply to the use of FPGA in space.  
 
Lessons learned from FPGA developments
 
"The complexity of the designs that are made in FPGAs has increased at the same rate as for ASICs. In essence, the FPGA design task has become much more complex. It has never before been so easy to make so many mistakes so fast as now." Starting from a summary of things which went wrong in real life ("lessons learned"), this document is an extension to the two previous documents, suggesting a development/design methodology for FPGA and valuable recipees for single event mitigation in FPGA designs.
  • Author: Sandi Habinc (pdf available)
     
     
    ESA FPGA task force: Lessons learned
     
    This paper gives an overview of the audits that ESA made on several FPGA designs included in the Rosetta spacecraft. and to assess any potential problems and their solutions at spacecraft and/or operational level. MAPLD, September 2002.
  • Authors A. Fernandez-Leon, A. Pouponnot, S. Habinc (pdf available)
     
     
    Last update: 21 September 2007
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