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Registration: 7:00 am - 7:00 pm
Continental Breakfast: 7:15 am - 8:15 am

Opening Remarks: 8:15 am
Workshop General and Technical Chairs

Keynote Presentation: 8:30 am - 9:30 am
Title: MER Project: Stealing Success from the Jaws of Failure
Speaker: Robert M. Manning, NASA / Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Robert M. Manning is Chief Engineer for the Mars Exploration Directorate where he supports current and future missions to Mars.  Rob was Systems Engineering Manager and Entry, Descent and Landing (EDL) Development Manager for the MER Project. Since joining JPL in 1980, Rob was Chief Engineer for the 1997 Mars Pathfinder Project, and also developed computers and fault tolerant electronic systems for JPL’s deep space missions, including the Cassini and Galileo Projects. He is a graduate of both Caltech (BS ’82) and Whitman College (BA ’80), where he studied mathematics, physics, computer science and control systems.

Development and Manufacture of a Linear 16 Pixel FIR Array - the PACS Module
Hilmar H. Richter, Michael Harr, Peter Dinges, Heribert Krüger, Alexandra Todisco, Bernd Zimmermann, ASTEQ GmbH

Flight Qualification of Sensor Front-End Electronics for PACS/Hershel at Liquid Helium Temperature
Patrick Merken, T. Souverijns, J. Putzeys, C. Van Hoof, IMEC

Break: 10:30 am - 11:00 am

Cryogenic Analog-to-Digital Converters Operational from Room Temperature Down to 4.2K
Ybe Creten, Patrick Merken, Robert Mertens, Willy Sansen, Chris Van Hoof, IMEC

Extreme Temperature Invariant Circuitry Through Adaptive Body Biasing and Supply Voltage Scaling
Wallace Shepherd Pitts, Vinayak Devasthali, Paul D. Franzon, John Damiano, North Carolina State University

Lunch: Noon - 1:15 pm

Session 2: Devices and their Reliabilityfor Extreme Temperatures
Chairs: Richard Patterson, NASA Glenn Research Center; Malik Elbuluk, University of Akron
1:15 pm - 5:00 pm

Reliability of Cryogenic Power Electronics Components
E. K. Mueller, M. J. Hennessy, O. Mueller, R. R. Neal, A. E. Libby, P. J. Steffan, W. J. Wilson, MTECH Laboratories, LLC

Electronics for Low Temperature Space Exploration Missions
Richard L. Patterson, Ahmad Hammoud, NASA Glenn Research Center; Malik Elbuluk, University of Akron

SiGe Diodes for Cryogenic Power Electronics
Rufus R. Ward, W. J. Dawson, L. Zhu, R. K. Kirschman, GPD Optoelectronics Corp.; G. Niu, R. M. Nelms, Auburn University; O. Mueller, LTE-Low Temperature Electronics; M. J. Hennessy, E. K. Mueller, MTECH Laboratories LLC

Break: 2:45 pm - 3:00 pm

Ultra Low Temperature Testing of an Ultra Low Power CMOS Synchronously Clocked Complex Logic Circuit
Ronald O. Nelson, Muzar Jah, Sterling Whitaker, Pen-Shu Yeh, University of Idaho

Characterization of SOI Industrial Circuits from -195°C to 300°C
Laurent Demeûs, Vincent Dessard, Gonzalo Picun, Pierre Delatte, Lucien Marechal, CISSOID. S.A.; Richard Patterson, NASA Glenn Research Center; Ahmad Hammoud, QSS Group, Inc.

Assessment of SOI Integrated Circuits at Extreme Temperatures
Malik Elbuluk, University of Akron; Ahmad Hammoud, QSS Group, Inc.; Richard L. Patterson, NASA Glenn Research Center

Reliability of Indium Attach in Low Temperature Packaging for Space Applications
F. Patrick McCluskey, Rui Wu, University of Maryland

Welcome Reception/Dinner: 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Registration: 7:30 am - 4:15 pm
Continental Breakfast: 7:30 am - 8:30 am

Keynote Presentation: 8:30 am - 9:10 am
Title: Extreme Temperature Electronics based on Self-Adaptive System using Field Programmable Gate Array
Speaker: Didier Keymeulen, Ricardo Zebulum, Ramesham Rajeshuni, Adrian Stoica, Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Srinivas Katkoori, University of South Florida; Sharon Graves, Frank Novak, Charles Antill, NASA LaRC

Didier Keymeulen received his BSEE, MSEE and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Free University of Brussels, Belgium in 1994. In 1996 he joined the computer science division of the Japanese National Electrotechnical Laboratory, Tsukuba, Japan as senior researcher. Since 1998 he is member of the technical staff of JPL in the Autonomous Division. At JPL, he is responsible for the applications of evolvable hardware for adaptive computing that leads to the development of fault-tolerant electronics and autonomous and adaptive sensor technology.  He has served as the chair, co-chair, and program-chair of the NASA/DoD Conferences on Evolvable Hardware.

Low Temperature Lithium Ion Batteries for Mars Missions
Ratnakumar Bugga, Marshall Smart, Rao Surampudi, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Thermal Cycle Lifetest of Swaged Cathode Heaters
Jay Polk, Rajeshuni Ramesham, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Break: 10:10 am - 10:40 am

Thermal Energy Storage Technology Developments
Michael Pauken, Nick Emis, Brenda Watkins, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Temperature Compensation of Calorimetric Flow Sensor using Wheatstone Bridge Circuit
Dongwoo Han, Sekwang Park, Kyungpook National University

Lunch: Noon - 1:00 pm

Session 4: FPGAs for Extreme Low Temperatures
Chairs: Srinivas Katkoori, University of South Florida; Gary M. Swift, Jet Propulsion Laboratory / Caltech
1:15 pm - 4:15 pm

An FPGA-Based Computer Platform for Space Applications
Gary M. Swift, Jet Propulsion Laboratory / Caltech

Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) in Extreme Environments - A Survey
Srinivas Katkoori, University of South Florida; Adrian Stoica, Didier Keymeulen, Ricardo Zebulum, Rajeshuni Ramesham, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Break: 2:15 pm - 2:45 pm

Single Effective Gate: Distributive Computation in Noisy Environments
Joseph Neff, SPAWAR Systems Center

Coupling Induced Oscillations in Bistable Systems and Applications
Visarath In, SPAWAR Systems Center

High Reliability FPGAs for Space Applications
Ravi Pragasam, Actel Corporation

Reception: 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm

Registration: 7:30 am - 12 noon
Continental Breakfast: 7:30 am - 8:30 am

Qualification of Hardware for JPL/NASA Projects Under Extreme Temperatures to Assess Reliability and to Enhance Mission Assurance
Rajeshuni Ramesham, Justin N. Maki, Gordon C. Cucullu, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Cryogenic Detection Circuit for a Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometer
Raman Mathur, Ronald W. Knepper, Peter B. O’Connor, Boston University

Testing of the Mars Exploration Rovers to Survive the Extreme Thermal Environments
Kin Fung Man, Alan R. Hoffman, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Break: 10:30 am - 11:00 am

Improved Electric Characterization to Compared Nitride Deposition with other Material for Passivation on Engine Oil Sensor
Suwon Cho, Sekwang Park, Kyungpook National University

Low Temperature, Thermal Cycle Electronic Packaging Survivability Study for Brushless Motor Drive Electronics
Carissa D. Tudryn, Elizabeth Kolawa, Don Schatzel, Andrew Shapiro, Jong-Ook Suh, Kirk Bonner, Chuck Derksen, Tosh Hatake, Atul Mehta, Anarosa Villanueva, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

Closing Remarks: 12:00 pm

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