Counterfeit ICs continue to be a concern. A recent court case has begun involving allegedly intentionally mis-labeled ICs that may have been purchased by the US Navy. Kathy Whittington is 514’s main counterfeit contact. Please check with her for the lastest details on how JPL is addressing counterfeit ICs.
Researchers at the LIRMM in France have developed an FPGA cell based on MRAM technologies. Space FPGAs use FPGAs based on either SRAM cells or antifuse cells. The use of MRAM technology mixed into an FPGA architecture has the potential to reduce power savings in standby mode and reduce configuration time.
The idea to [...]
Jose Pantaleon has taken on the role of GIDEP Coordinator. GIDEP stands for (Government-Industry Data Exchange Program)and is a cooperative activity between government and industry participants seeking to reduce or eliminate expenditures of resources by sharing technical information essential during research, design, development, production and operational phases of the life cycle of systems, facilities and [...]
Doug Sheldon presented 2 papers at the 2009 MAPLD (Military and Aerospace Programmable Logic Devices) meeting at Goddard Space Flight Center. The first paper was titled “FPGAs, Scaling and Reliability”. This was a discussion of the CMOS process technology used to scale modern FPGAs down to 45nm. The talk also highlighted [...]
