I'm pretty sure it's open to the public, so feel free to come along if you're in Cam. It's going to be aimed at the 'BBC Horizon' level, so no electronics/physics/maths knowledge will be assumed.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SPACE ELECTRONICS Sarah Thompson FC22, Friday 11th February
All modern spacecraft critically depend upon high performance digital electronics. Extremes of temperature, radiation and hard vacuum pose a significant engineering challenge -- circuits that would be entirely reliable on Earth will typically fail after a surprisingly short period in space.
In this talk, Sarah will describe two alternative approaches: 'build it so it won't break', and 'build it so that if it breaks you can fix it'. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I'll be giving two versions of this talk -- one at the lab, which will be more technical, and another next week at St Edmund's (see http://findatlantis.com/albums/album03/poster_web.jpg for details), which will be aimed more at a non-specialist audience.
PS: If you're from outside the CPRG, please let me know if you're coming so we can move to a larger room if necessary.
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SPACE ELECTRONICS
Sarah Thompson
FC22, Friday 11th February
All modern spacecraft critically depend upon high performance digital electronics. Extremes of temperature, radiation and hard vacuum pose a significant engineering challenge -- circuits that would be entirely reliable on Earth will typically fail after a surprisingly short period in space.
In this talk, Sarah will describe two alternative approaches: 'build it so it won't break', and 'build it so that if it breaks you can fix it'.
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I'll be giving two versions of this talk -- one at the lab, which will be more technical, and another next week at St Edmund's (see http://findatlantis.com/albums/album03/poster_web.jpg for details), which will be aimed more at a non-specialist audience.
PS: If you're from outside the CPRG, please let me know if you're coming so we can move to a larger room if necessary.