The Use Of FPGA In Space

Lessons learned from FPGA Developments (Format: Adobe PDF) 

"The complexity of the designs that are made in FPGAs has increased at the same rate as for ASICs. In essence, the FPGA design task has become much more complex. It has never before been so easy to make so many mistakes so fast as now."
Starting from a summary of things which went wrong in real life ("lessons learned"), this document is an extension to the two previous documents, suggesting a development/design methodology for FPGA and valuable recipees for single event mitigation in FPGA designs. Author: Sandi Habinc.

ESA FPGA Task Force: Lessons Learned (Format: Adobe PDF) 

This paper gives an overview of the audits that ESA made on several FPGA designs included in the Rosetta spacecraft. and to assess any potential problems and their solutions at spacecraft and/or operational level. MAPLD, September 2002, Authors A. Fernandez-Leon, A. Pouponnot, S. Habinc.