Development of custom radiation-tolerant DCDC converter ASICs

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Reducing Power Consumption in Fault Tolerant ASICs

Fault tolerance techniques have been traditionally used for specific applications such as space, avionic, or nuclear where the reliability is of utmost importance. Moreover, nowadays the reliability of nanoscale CMOS processes is reduced, and the power optimization goes beyond the standard worst-case boundaries. As a consequence, fault tolerance became the important factor also for the main str...

Impact of Custom Interconnect Masks on Cost and Performance of Structured ASICs

As process technology scales, the design effort and Non-Recurring Engineering (NRE) costs associated with the development of Integrated Circuits (ICs) is becoming extremely high. One of the main reasons is the high cost of preparing and processing IC fabrication masks. The design effort and cost can be reduced by employing Structured Application-Specific ICs (Structured ASICs). Structured ASICs...

Radiation Tolerant Ultra Low Power CMOS Microelectronics: Technology Development Status

Electronic components used in spacecraft are susceptible to the radiation environment that causes detrimental effect which could jeopardize the mission. Much effort has been devoted to methodologies that would produce radiation tolerant or hardened devices hopefully with speed-power performance close to commercial parts. Recent development in combining radiation tolerance by design technique wi...

Radiation damage tolerant nanomaterials

The MIT Faculty has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters. Designing a material from the atomic level to achieve a tailored response in extreme conditions is a grand challenge in materials research. Nanostructured metals and composites provide a path to this goal because they contain interfaces that attract, absorb and annihilate point...