FSW 2009 Archive



Beckman Institute at the California Institute of Technology
November 4-6, 2009

The 2009 Workshop on Spacecraft Flight Software (FSW-09) was held on November 4-6, 2009 and hosted by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pasadena, CA.

Audio and slideshow presentations for FSW-09.

KEYNOTE (Day 1): Reliable Software Systems Design
Dr. Gerard Holzmann, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California

KEYNOTE (Day 2): The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR)
Dr. Fiona Harrison

KEYNOTE (Day 3): Have We Really Lost The Space Acquisition Recipe Or Are We Simply Trying To Go Where No [One] Has Gone Before?
Dr. Douglas J. Buettner, The Aerospace Corporation
Major Chad Millette, United States Air Force

Managing For Software Reliability
Steven Stolper, Software Consultant

Software Verification with a Model Checker
Ed Gamble and Gerard Holzmann, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California

Relationship To Systems Engineering
Mary Ann Lapham and Dr. Charles (Bud) Hammons, Carnegie Mellon University/Software Engineering Institute

V&V for Model-Based Software Development
Karen Gundy-Burlet, Ph.D., NASA-Ames Research Center

REATSS – NASA IV&V using Simulation
White Paper
Chris Hall, Virtutech, Inc

System Architecture Specification And Exploration Using a Fast Functional Simulator
Chad Margolin, Virtutech, Inc

Cosmically Distributed Components
David Smyth, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California

Flight-like Flight S/W Testing Methods
Celina Garcia, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California

Graphical Model-based Software Development at the Space Vehicle Integration Laboratory
Michael J. Phillips, LM Fellow - Software Engineering, Space Vehicle Integration Lab - Chief Engineer, Lockheed Martin Space Systems

Coverage Analysis of RTEMS
Joel Sherrill, PhD, Director of Research and Development OAR Corporation

MER Data Management
David Smyth, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California

Flash File System for a Smart SSR: Modifying YAFFS for Onboard Usage
David Edell, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Flight Software Architecture for use with a Safety-Critical Partitioned Real-Time Operating System
Greg Horvath, Dan Dvorak, Dave Hecox, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California

Data-Centric Architecture for Space Systems
Rajive Joshi, RTI

First-Fault Data Capture
Steven Stolper, Software Consultant

Embedding the Power of STK On-Board Space Assets via the On-Board Dynamic Simulation System (ODySSy/STK™)
John Cuseo, President - Advanced Solutions, Inc. (Analytical Graphics, Inc. and Advanced Solutions, Inc.)

Innovative Spacecraft Bus Architecture
Alvar Saenz-Otero PhD, MIT Space Systems Laboratory

Mission-Critical Space Software For Multi-Core Processors
Steve Crago, Senior Project Leader, USC/ISI

Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) Acceleration of Machine Vision Software for Space Flight Applications
Brent Tweddle, Graduate Research Assistant, MIT Space Systems Laboratory

Software Defined Radio (SDR) Architecture and Systems Issues
Kenneth J. Peters, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California

Effective Integration and Testing of Geographically Distributed Space Systems Using Native Protocols Over IP
Tom Jackson, Greg Menke, James Dailey, Jacob Hageman, Carlos Ugarte, Lester Jackson, Sara Haugh, Eric Lidwa, Jerry Cote, Christina Kelly, Larry Alexander, Jay Wilson, Sussan Rad, Goddard Space Flight Center

DTN Tests on the Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) United Kingdom Disaster Monitoring Constellation Satellite (UKDMC)
William D. Ivancic, NASA Glenn Research Center

Planes, Trains and DTN
Ashton Vaughs, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California

Towards Java in Space
Filip Pizlo, Lukasz Ziarek, Ethan Blanton, and Jan Vitek, Fiji Systems LLC

Establishing An Environment For Continuous Integration And Test Of Flight Software
Robert Klar, Christopher Mangels, And Randal Harmon, Southwest Research Institute