Embedded Systems in Space
Orbital astrophysics and environment vs. flight plan for a satellite. New Space paradigms, Cube-Sat revolution and two levels of requirements. Satellite subsystems - power, OBC, ADCS, radio, payload. Applied space technology - rad hard, rad tolerant, commercial / off the shelf. Embedded platforms - microcontrollers and FPGAs. Software reliability dilemma - complexity vs. simplicity.
About the speaker - Przemysław Szecówka
FPGA designer and academic teacher, MSc (1993) and PhD (1999) in electronics from Wroclaw University of Technology. For the first 20 years (1993-2013), full-time scientist and lecturer at Wroclaw UT, engaged in digital circuits (VHDL), neural networks, microcontrollers, gas sensor systems, atomic force microscopy, prosthesis control. Secondarily, a mercenary in a few ASIC/FPGA projects. Since 2013, full-time engineer working on FPGA chipsets for various fields and companies, including Espotel (biomedical and automation), Nokia (5G and super-fast interfaces), Thorium Space (satellites and microwave devices); recently with Rockwell Automation (Katowice PL / Milwaukee WI). Since 2016, secondarily, a lecturer at Wroclaw School of Information Technology (Horyzont), teaching FPGAs, neural networks and artificial intelligence. Overall academic stats: 80+ scientific papers, 300+ citations (H index = 9), 50+ MSc and BSc projects supervised (most on FPGAs).