Keynote Speeches

ChemCam instrument on the Curiosity rover: from R&D to operations on Mars ; be reliable or die…
Sylvestre MAURICE, IRAP (France)

The ChemCam project started as an R&D program at Cnes in 2001, was selected by NASA in 2005, launched in 2011, and is operated on the Curiosity rover at Mars since 2012. It consists of a high energy laser which creates, at distance, a plasma on Mars soils and rocks to infer their elemental composition. Quality and reliability were inherent to the development of this very innovative instrument that has to work in a very unusual environment (Mars surface) at 350 million km distance, for the first time on “the most complex robot ever done by JPL”, in the end to find out if Mars was in the past an habitable world. I’ll trace back this unique experience with emphasis on Quality and Reliability management.

Towards Hardware Cyber security
Ramesh KARRI, Polytechnic Institute of New York University (USA)

Hardware security and trust is an important design objective similar to power, performance, reliability and testability. I will highlight why hardware security and trust are important objectives from the economics, security, and safety perspectives. Important messages from this talk include (i) understanding simple gotchas when traditional DFT, test, and validation techniques are used (scan chains, JTAG, SoC test, assertion based validation), (ii) understand how traditional DFT, test and validation techniques can be used to improve hardware security and trust and finally (iii) understand "Design for Trust" approaches that can provide testability without compromising security and trust.