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TITLE: Radiation-Hardened and Radiation-Tolerant FPGAs
High performance, high density radiation hardened FPGAs are in
great demand for military and space applications to reduce cost
and cycle time. BAE Systems, in partnership with the DoD
community, has implemented radiation hardened 0.15 mm bulk CMOS
process technology in a facility located in Manassas, VA to
support such needs. BAE Systems and Actel Corp. have collaborated
for over 10 years as suppliers of 0.8 mm anti-fuse based
radiation hardened FPGAs. Building on this past experience, DTRA
is sponsoring efforts to install Actel's Metal to Metal based AX
250 0.15 mm FPGA in BAE Systems' process facility so that
strategically hardened parts having the same form, fit and
function as the commercial version, are available for the next
generation military and space systems.. For additional
information, access: BAE Systems
Actel Corp. has been producing radiation-tolerant FPGAs for
several years for high-reliability space-flight systems. The
RTAX-4000S family of devices have between 1/2 and 4 million
system gates. They include SEU (single event upset) hardened
flip-flops with built-in Triple Modular Redundancy (TMR) along
with 540k bits of embedded SRAM. The smaller RTAX-2000S family
of devices are priced starting at $3,580 each in quantities of
100. For additional information, access: Actel
Xilinx FPGAs have also been used in space applications. To
understand the sensitivities of a particular device, extensive
radiation testing must be undertaken. Xilinx tests all QPro FPGA
and PROM devices at particle accelerators throughout the United
States. For additional information, access: Xilinx
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Radiation-Hardened Radiation-Tolerant FPGAs
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DATE: June 2006
TITLE: Radiation-Hardened and Radiation-Tolerant FPGAs
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