FPGAs and Parallel Architectures for Aerospace Applications

Fernanda Lima Kastensmidt joined the Instituto de Informática faculty in 2005. She received a PhD in 2003 and MSE in 1999 both in Computer Science from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. Dr. Fernanda’s current research focuses on soft error mitigation techniques for SRAM-based FPGAs and integrated circuits, such as microprocessors, memories and network-on-chips (NoCs), and the analysis and modeling of radiation effects in those circuits. Paolo Rech is an Adjunct Professor for the Instituto de Informática.

• Programmable Logic and Parallel Architectures for Space Applications.- Applications.- Brazilian Nano-satellite with Reconfigurable SOC GNSS Receiver Tracking capability.- Overview and Investigation of SEU Detection and Recovery Approaches for FPGA-based Heterogeneous Systems.- SRAM-based FPGAs.- A Fault injection technique oriented to SRAM-FPGAs.- Fault Injection System for Measuring Soft Processor Design Sensitivity on Virtex-5 FPGAs.- Hybrid Configuration Scrubbing for Xilinx Series-7 FPGAs.- N-MR Techniques for SRAM-based FPGAs and Power Analysis.- Fault-Tolerant Manager Core for Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration in FPGAs.- Multiple Fault Injection FPGA Platform based on Ground-level Radiation Experiments.