FASA 2014 - First International Workshop on FPGAs for Aerospace Applications

Programmable devices are very attractive to aerospace applications due to their high logic integration capability, high flexibility during the project phase and reconfigurability. However, FPGAs are fabricated in nanometer technologies and consequently they are susceptible to interference during lifetime that may provoke transient errors. One of the major concerns is the radiation effect due to the presence of neutrons in the atmosphere and of protons, electrons and heavy ions in space. Neutron interacts with the material provoking secondary energized particles that can provoke soft errors. Proton, electron and heavy ions may ionize directly the material provoking soft errors. The objective of this workshop is to discuss commercial of the shelf (COTS) FPGAs for aerospace applications, radiation effects results in FPGAs, soft error rate (SER) of FPGAs under radiation environment and mitigation techniques to radiation effects targeting the aerospace market.
Topics of the FSP Workshop include, but are not limited to:
- Radiations effects in FPGAs
- Fault tolerant techniques for FPGAs
- Use of COTS FPGAs in aerospace applications
- Experimental data of FPGAs under radiation
- FPGA embedded processors under radiation
- Fault injection in FPGAs