Archive of XRTC Lectures, and Presentations
- May 5, 2023 – Christian M. Fuchs (Fox2Space) on their SelectMAP and Scrubbing Hardware for Space Applications
- Slides
- Mar. 15, 2023 – Rajan Bedi (Spacechips CEO) on their Space Reference Board
- Slides (1.8MB)
- Q&A recording (80.2MB)
- He promises EM boards in 2023 & flight in 2024,
- Mar. 1, 2023 – Sebastian Garcia (S-Labs) and Gary Swift (Swift-ERS) on: SEE Test Approach for the Versal Network-on-Chip (12.7MB)
- Feb. 15, 2023 – Jim Devereaux (AMD/Xilinx FAE=field applications engineer and A&D SME=subject matter expert) on Designing with Versal ACAP using Vivado (1.6MB)
- Nov. 23, 2022 – Jim Devereaux (AMD/Xilinx FAE=field applications engineer and A&D SME=subject matter expert) on the New, NOT-Excel-based Power Calc Tool for Versal (and henceforth):
- Demo Video (MP4, 113MB)
- Oct. 26, 2022 – Eric Crabill (AMD/Xilinx SME=subject matter expert) on the Versal's h/w-based XilSEM (Xilinx Soft Error Mitigation/Monitor):
- Pierre Maillard (AMD/Xilinx New Technology and Rad Test Expert): Versal Radiation Test Results (so far), presented at RADECS'22, Oct. 19, 2022
- Andres Perez Celis, BYU: Emulating Radiation Induced Multi-cell Upset Patterns in SRAM with Fault Injection, on May 26, 2021:
- Jim Devereaux of Xilinx with A Technical Intro of the 7nm Versal Platform: Enhancements of the Platform Infrastructure, and new PL capabilities for Space-Users (and the Roadmap), on Mar. 10th, 2021:
- – Extended Answers to Questions (Forthcoming) –
- Andy Wilson on Neutron Radiation Testing Results of a TMRed RISC-V Core, from NSREC2020, on Feb. 24, 2021
- Andrew Keller of BYU: Partial TMR for Improving the Soft Error Reliability of SRAM-Based FPGA Designs, from NSREC2020, on Feb. 3, 2021
- Gary led an Open Discussion: Background and XRTC Position on SEU Test Methodology Fluence-to-First-Failure on Dec. 23, 2020
- Dave Vail, rad group of L3Harris - extended SEE Symposium talk “More Clues in the 7-Series FPGAs Micro-Latchup Mystery” on Nov 10, 2020
- Jim Devereaux of Xilinx - Technical Overview and Panel Discussion of the new Versal
FPGAsACAPs, and what they mean for Space Users. Presented on Sep. 20, 2020.
- Melanie Berg of SpaceR2 - on the XQRKU060 radiation testing she carried out for Xilinx. Presented on Aug. 26, 2020.
- Patrick Fleming and Bill Rowe of Raytheon on “Using Fault Injection for Characterization of SEU Mitigated FPGA Designs” 2020 MAPLD/SEE Symposium Paper, Jul. 8, 2020.
- Dr. Rajan Bedi of Spacechips on “Scrubbing and In-Orbit Re-Configuration Options Using the XQRKU060”. Presented on Jul. 17, 2020.
- XRTC Moderator Dr. Christian M. Fuchs on “The XRTC KU060 DUT Quality Assurance Kit” from Jun. 11, 2020.
- XRTC Moderator Dr. Christian M. Fuchs on “How to Test and Benchmark a Space FPGA Computer Architecture based on Software Fault-Tolerance” from Feb. 25, 2020.
- Dr. Javier Valle of TI on “SEE characterization of an 18 A buck converter to power low voltage, high current FPGAs” from Jan. 22, 2020.
- Also, see Javier's related Special Presentation from Oct. 3, 2018 below
- Krishna Gnawali and Dr. Heather Quinn of Los Alamos on “Functional Testing of Microprocessors for Radiation-Induced Faults” from Oct. 2, 2019
- Kevin Wray of Boeing on and the XRTC Data Analysis Team on “Final Analysis and Lessons Learned: Virtex-7 Heavy Ion Clocking (PLL & MMCM) Data with Comparison to the Re-Analyzed Virtex-5QV Result”
- Dr. Christian Fuchs on “Fault-Tolerant Satellite Computing on a Budget” previewing his Small Sat ( https://smallsat.org/ ) conference presentation from Aug. 2, 2019
- BYU PhD student Andres Perez on “Multi-Cell Upset Events in CRAM” from May 8, 2019
- XRTC Moderator Gary Swift on “Back to the Beam with Gen4, Pt. 1 - Look Ma, No BrainBox” from Apr. 10, 2019
- Dr. Krzysztof Sielewicz on “Methodology, experimental testing and results for evaluation of the Kintex-7 operation in radiation environment” from Feb. 20, 2019
- Thesis available here in the CERN repository
- Dr. Munir Shoga of The Radiation Group on “Some Tools, Resources, and Best Practices for Radiation Effects Evaluation for Space Use” from Jan. 16, 2019
- Minal Sawant of Xilinx on “Package and Updates on New Space FPGA XQRKU060” from Dec. 5, 2018
- Dr. Javier Valle of TI on A Space Load Switch: Details, Rad Test, and SEL+Cold sparing Use Cases from Oct. 3, 2018
- Gary Swift (SwiftERS), Bill Rowe (Raytheon) and Sebastian Garcia (Slabs) on Thinning Non-Uniformity's Impact on SEE Data Quality from Jun. 27, 2018
- Update on May 21 SEE Symposium Presentation
- Dr. Heather Quinn of Los Alamos on 1-10 MeV neutron-induced upsets and their impact on the JEDEC test standard from May 9, 2018
- Prof. Mike Wirthlin of BYU on MPSOC UltraScale+ beam results from Apr. 18, 2018
- Menno Bouman of Filmetrics on measuring residual silicon on thinned ICs plus Q&A from Apr. 4, 2018
- Dr. David Lee of Sandia on his REDW'18 submission with BYU on KU+ SEE data from Mar 21, 2018
- Dr. Pierre Maillard of Xilinx on his Ultrascale (20nm) Rad Test Program from Feb. 7, 2018
- Dan Elftmann of Xilinx, Space Product Roadmap from Nov 17, 2017
(The recordings are zipped 'arf' or 'mp4' files; 'arf' player available here.)