Hardness-assurance and testing issues for bipolar/BiCMOS devices

Testing and Hardness Assurance Guidelines for Single Event Transients (SETs) in Linear Devices

Research Issues in Testing for Software Systems Assurance white paper

Software will be improved by a broad-spectrum attack on the intrinsic complexity of the problems software tries to solve. However, most of the methods that have been (and will be) proposed for improving the development process are not subject to practical validation. The arguments for using these methods may be plausible, but their experimental validation is elusive. Software testing, on the ot...

Radiation Hardness Assurance for Space Systems

1.0 Introduction ........................................................................................................................................ 2 2.0 Radiation Hardness Assurance Overview .......................................................................................... 2 3.0 Define the Space Radiation Environment ..................................................................

Emerging Radiation Hardness Assurance ( RHA ) issues : A NASA approach for space flight programs

Spacecraft performance requirements drive the utilization of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) components and emerging technologies in systems. The response of these technologies to radiation is often complex. This engenders a set of emerging radiation hardness assurance (RHA) issues which include displacement damage in optocouplers, high-precision and hybrid devices, enhanced low dose rate (ELDR...

Radiation Hardness Assurance Issues Associated with COTS in JPL Flight Systems: The Challenge of Europa

With the decreasing availability of radiation hardened electronics and the new NASA paradigm of faster, more aggressive and less expensive space missions, there has been an increasing emphasis on using high performance commercial microelectronic parts and circuits in NASA spacecraft. The use of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) parts and circuits in space systems poses many potential problems, es...