2021 IEEE Space Computing Conference (SCC)
Downloadable schedule: Schedule(.pdf)
| 10:00 AM |
Conference Introduction: Welcome and Logistics Wes Powell (General Chair, SCC 2021) |
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| 10:10 AM |
Keynote Dr. Joel B. Mozer Chief Scientist, United States Space Force "Future Vision of the US Space Force and Long-term S&T Challenges" |
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| 10:46 AM | Live Q&A Session | |
| 10:52 AM | Break | |
| 11:08 AM |
Keynote Dr. Andrew E. Johnson Principal Robotics System Engineer, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory "Landing Perseverance with Terrain Relative Navigation" |
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| 11:57 AM | Live Q&A Session | |
| 12:03 PM | Break | |
| 12:31 PM |
Track 1 - Components (Introduction) Jonny Pellish, Track Chair |
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| 12:34 PM |
Track 1 - Components (Presentation 1) "GR765 - Multi-Core LEON5FT System-on-Chip", Jan Andersson |
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| 12:55 PM |
Track 1 - Components (Presentation 2) "Electronic Parts and ESD", Shri Agarwal |
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| 1:10 PM |
Track 1 - Components (Presentation 3) "Functional Safety and AI: from component level to edge", Riccardo Mariani |
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| 1:30 PM |
Track 1 - Components (Presentation 4) "Reliability Survey of SRAM-based FPGA Open Source RISC-V Processors", Andrew Wilson |
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| 1:50 PM |
Track 1 - Components (Presentation 5) "PRO-GAGE: A High Performance Compact GAGE Hash Function Processor for Small Space Technology", Mohamed El-Hadedy |
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| 2:05 PM |
Track 1 - Components (Session 1) Live Q&A |
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| 2:26 PM | Break | |
| 3:00 PM |
Sponsor Engagement Session: exhibitor booths and presentations |
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| 4:00 PM |
Track 1 - Components (Presentation 6) "Trade-Space for Radiation-Tolerant Neuromorphic Processors", Michael Lowry |
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| 4:24 PM |
Track 1 - Components (Presentation 7) "Approaches for Phasing Commercial-Off-The-Shelf Electronic Parts into NASA Missions", Jesse Leitner |
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| 4:56 PM |
Track 1 - Components (Presentation 8) "New Frontiers in Applied Non-Von Neumann Computing", Neil Sampson and George Williams |
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| 5:13 PM |
Track 1 - Components (Presentation 9) "Scalable Microprocessors and Microcontrollers for Space", Casey McCoy and Nicolas Ganry |
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| 5:28 PM |
Track 1 - Components (Presentation 10) "FuSa for Space – Functional Safety Methods and Tools for Space Applications", Ian Land and Meirav Nitzan |
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| 5:47 PM |
Track 1 - Components (Session 2) Live Q&A |
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| 10:00 AM |
Day 2 Greeting Wes Powell (General Chair, SCC 2021) |
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| 10:05 AM |
Keynote Mark McDonald Chief Architect, NASA Space Technology Mission Directorate "NASA Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) Technology Portfolio" |
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| 10:41 AM | Live Q&A Session | |
| 10:47 AM | Break | |
| 11:05 AM |
Keynote Doug Adams Dragonfly Flight System Engineer, JHU Applied Physics Laboratory "Exploration of Titan with the Rotorcraft-Lander Dragonfly" |
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| 11:35 AM | Live Q&A Session | |
| 11:41 AM | Break | |
| 12:20 PM |
Track 2 - Computing Architectures (Introduction) Stephen Crago, Track Chair |
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| 12:24 PM |
Track 2 - Computing Architectures (Presentation 1) "De-RISC: the First RISC-V Space-graded Platform for Safety-critical Systems", Stefano Ribes | |
| 12:41 PM |
Track 2 - Computing Architectures (Presentation 2) "The Future of High Performance Computing in Space – The Path Ahead", Jim Butler |
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| 12:56 PM |
Track 2 - Computing Architectures (Presentation 3) "PCB Design Methodology for High-performance Flight Computing Systems", Nick Franconi |
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| 1:17 PM |
Track 2 - Computing Architectures (Presentation 4) "RISC-V Benchmarking for Onboard Sensor Processing", Michael Cannizzaro |
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| 1:37 PM |
Track 2 - Computing Architectures (Session 1) Live Q&A |
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| 1:58 PM | Break | |
| 2:36 PM |
Track 2 - Computing Architectures (Presentation 5) "How to Operate a Helicopter on Mars in 3 Easy Steps", Timothy Canham | |
| 2:57 PM |
Track 2 - Computing Architectures (Presentation 6) "NASA SpaceCube: Miniaturized Platform for Onboard Processing and Analysis", Chris Wilson |
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| 3:16 PM |
Track 2 - Computing Architectures (Presentation 7) "Neuromorphic architectures for edge computing under extreme environments", Angel Yanguas-Gil |
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| 3:40 PM |
Track 2 - Computing Architectures (Presentation 8) "Progress on a RFSoC based readout system for the LYNX X-ray Observatory", Josef Frisch |
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| 3:59 PM |
Track 2 - Computing Architectures (Session 2) Live Q&A |
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| 4:19 PM | Break | |
| 4:50 PM |
Track 3 - Avionics Systems (Introduction) David Rutishauser, Track Chair |
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| 4:54 PM |
Track 3 - Avionics Systems (Presentation 1) "Moving Target Defense for Space Systems", Chris Jenkins | |
| 5:14 PM |
Track 3 - Avionics Systems (Presentation 2) "Packet Based Modular Redundancy", Christopher Heistand |
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| 5:36 PM |
Track 3 - Avionics Systems (Session 1) Live Q&A |
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| 10:00 AM |
Day 3 Greeting Wes Powell (General Chair, SCC 2021) |
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| 10:05 AM |
Keynote Dr. Matt Bolcar Lead Optical Systems Engineer, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center "Computational Needs for Future NASA Direct Imaging Exoplanet Mission Concepts" |
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| 10:44 AM | Live Q&A Session | |
| 10:50 AM | Break | |
| 11:05 AM |
Keynote Michael Paul Interstellar Probe Project Manager, JHU Applied Physics Laboratory "Interstellar Probe: The next generation(s) of space exploration" |
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| 11:42 AM | Live Q&A Session | |
| 11:48 AM | Break | |
| 12:20 PM |
Track 3 - Avionics Systems (Re-introduction) David Rutishauser, Track Chair |
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| 12:24 PM |
Track 3 - Avionics Systems (Presentation 3) "Towards an Interoperable Security Policy for Space-Based Internetworks", Edward Birrane & Sarah Heiner | |
| 12:42 PM |
Track 3 - Avionics Systems (Presentation 4) "NASA Onboard Wireless Overview", Ray Wagner |
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| 1:03 PM |
Track 3 - Avionics Systems (Presentation 5) "Cloud Computing in Space with Software-based Fault Tolerance on GPUs", Ian Troxel | |
| 1:26 PM |
Track 3 - Avionics Systems (Session 2) Live Q&A |
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| 1:47 PM | Break | |
| 2:18 PM |
Presentation of Best Paper Award |
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| 2:20 PM |
Sponsor Engagement Session: exhibitor booths and presentations |
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| 3:30 PM |
Track 4 - Flight Data Processing (Introduction) Elizabeth Timmons, Track Chair |
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| 3:32 PM |
Track 4 - Flight Data Processing (Presentation 1) "Comparing Data Processing Options for Spacecraft", Josh Donckels | |
| 3:54 PM |
Track 4 - Flight Data Processing (Presentation 2) "Threat Data Generation for Space Systems", Meghan Galiardi Sahakian |
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| 4:12 PM |
Track 4 - Flight Data Processing (Presentation 3) "Onboard Image Multi-Scale Tile Classification for Satellites and Other Spacecraft", Evan Gretok | |
| 4:32 PM |
Track 4 - Flight Data Processing (Presentation 4) "Guiding DART to Impact - the FPGA SoC Design of the DRACO Image Processing Pipeline", Dmitriy Bekker |
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| 4:58 PM |
Track 4 - Flight Data Processing (Session 1) Live Q&A |
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| 10:00 AM |
Day 4 Greeting Wes Powell (General Chair, SCC 2021) |
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| 10:05 AM |
Keynote Dr. Krste Asanovic SiFive, Chair of RISC-V International "Instruction Sets Want To Be Free of Gravity" |
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| 10:46 AM | Live Q&A Session | |
| 10:52 AM | Break | |
| 11:05 AM |
Track 4 - Flight Data Processing (Re-introduction) Elizabeth Timmons, Track Chair |
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| 11:07 AM |
Track 4 - Flight Data Processing (Presentation 5) "OSAM-1 Hybrid Computing Architecture", Dan MacKenzie | |
| 11:29 AM |
Track 4 - Flight Data Processing (Presentation 6) "Safe and Precise Landing – Integrated Capabilities Evolution (SPLICE) Descent and Landing Computer (DLC)", David Rutishauser |
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| 11:44 AM |
Track 4 - Flight Data Processing (Presentation 7) "Opus: Space-Based Data Center", Elisabeth Nguyen | |
| 12:01 PM |
Track 4 - Flight Data Processing (Presentation 8) "Building Custom Processors For Space Using RISC-V", Chris Jones |
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| 12:21 PM |
Track 4 - Flight Data Processing (Session 2) Live Q&A |
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| 12:42 PM | Break | |
| 1:13 PM |
Track 5 - Machine Learning (Introduction) Craig Vineyard, Track Chair |
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| 1:17 PM |
Track 5 - Machine Learning (Presentation 1) "Implementation and Performance Analysis of Machine Learning Algorithms on Spaceflight Hardware", Mike Koets | |
| 1:38 PM |
Track 5 - Machine Learning (Presentation 2) "Improving Dependability of Onboard Deep Learning with Resilient TensorFlow", Tyler Garrett |
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| 1:56 PM |
Track 5 - Machine Learning (Presentation 3) "A Methodology for Evaluating and Analyzing FPGA-Accelerated, Deep-Learning Applications for Onboard Space Processing", Sebastian Sabogal | |
| 2:13 PM |
Track 5 - Machine Learning (Presentation 4) "JENOVA: Joint Exploration of Neuromorphic Orbital Vehicle Architectures", Josh Donckels |
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| 2:31 PM |
Track 5 - Machine Learning (Session 1) Live Q&A |
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| 2:52 PM | Break | |
| 3:23 PM |
Track 5 - Machine Learning (Presentation 5) "Neuromorphic Computing for Spacecraft’s Terrain Relative Navigation: A Case of Event-Based Crater Classification Task", Kariya Kazuki | |
| 3:41 PM |
Track 5 - Machine Learning (Presentation 6) "Designing a Radiation-Tolerant, Reconfigurable Computing Platform for Deep Learning Acceleration using Xilinx Kintex UltraScale FPGAs", Jason Vidmar &A Troy Jones |
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| 4:03 PM |
Track 5 - Machine Learning (Presentation 7) "SpikePropamine, Meta-Learning Synaptic Plasticity for Spiking Neural Networks", Joe Hays | |
| 4:25 PM |
Track 5 - Machine Learning (Presentation 8) "Creating AI/ML Applications in RT PolarFire® FPGAs with the VectorBlox™ SDK", Ken O'Neill |
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| 4:45 PM |
Track 5 - Machine Learning (Session 2) Live Q&A |
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| 5:05 PM | Conference Closing Remarks | |
We look forward to seeing you, virtually!