VLSI Design and Embedded Systems Research Group
Last week Dr Tanya Vladimirova and Dr Xiaofeng Wu from the VLSI Design and Embedded Systems (VDES) Research Group of the Surrey Space Centre (SSC) attended the 1st NASA/ESA conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems in Istanbul. Dr Tanya Vladimirova gave a keynote address entitled "Addressing the challenges of microelectronics design for space applications" which was very well received. Dr Xiaofeng Wu presented two papers "Enabling Technologies for Distributed Picosatellite Missions in LEO" co-authored by T. Vladimirova, K. Sidibeh, D. Barnhart and A.-H. Jallad and "On-Board Partial Run-Time Reconfiguration for Pico-Satellite Constellations" co-authored by T. Vladimirova.
The 1-million EPSRC project ESPACENET: "Evolvable Networks of Intelligent and Secure Integrated and Distributed Reconfigurable System-on-Chip Sensor Nodes for Aerospace based Monitoring and Diagnostics" jointly undertaken by the University of Surrey (SSC), University of Edinburgh, University of Essex, University of Kent, SSTL, JPL(USA), Epson and Spiral Gateway, was officially launched at the conference.
