NASA Office of Logic Design

A scientific study of the problems of digital engineering for space flight systems,
with a view to their practical solution.

2006 MAPLD International Conference

Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center
with a session at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

Washington, D.C.

September 26-28, 2006

Session A. Applications: Military & Aerospace I

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Session Chairs:
Tanya Vladimirova, University of Surrey
Hans Tiggeler, Honorary MAPLD Chair
Kevin Hames, NASA Johnson Space Center

9:00 AM "Welcome to MAPLD"
Richard B. Katz, NASA Office of Logic Design

9:10 AM
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Chris Scolese, NASA Chief Engineer

9:35 AM Submission 139
“Implementing Space Shuttle Data Processing System Concepts in Programmable Logic Devices”
Roscoe C. Ferguson, Robert Tate, and Hiram C. Thompson
United Space Alliance
Abstract: 139_ferguson_a.html

10:00 AM Submission 220
"FPGA-Based Laser Beam Steering System"
Brian L. Snyder
Goodrich Corporation Advanced Sensors Technical Center
Abstract: 220_snyder_a.html

10:25 AM BREAK

10:50 AM Submission 260
"Intelligent and Distributed Reconfigurable System-on-Chip Sensor Networks for Space Applications --- An Introduction to ESPACENET"
T.Vladimirova¹, X.Wu¹, C.P.Bridges¹, T.Arslan², N.Haridas², E.Yang², A.T.Erdogan², N.Barton², A.J.Walton², J.S.Thompson², A.Stoica^{2, 3}, K.D.McDonald-Maier⁴, and W.G.J. Howells⁵¹University of Surrey
²University of Edinburgh
³NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory
⁴University of Essex
⁵University of Kent
Abstract: 260_vladimirova_a.html

11:15 AM Submission 133
“From SpaceWire to SpaceFibre”
Martin Suess
ESA-ESTEC
Abstract: 133_suess_a.html

11:40 AM Submission 114
"Performance Evaluation of a Field Programmable Gate Array Circuit Reconfiguration System"
Jason L. Ives, Rusty O. Baldwin, Barry E. Mullins, and Richard A. Raines
Air Force Institute of Technology
Abstract: 114_ives_a.html

12:05 PM Submission 189
"EMD: An Enhanced Min-Delay Calculation for a Reliable Timing Analysis with Actel FPGAs"
Nizar Abdallah, Denis Hommais, and Amal Zerrouki
Actel Corporation
Abstract: 189_abdallah_a.html

12:30 - 2:00 PM LUNCH

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