Rad Hard ASIC Design
SSED offers an unparalleled set of rad-hard design solutions for fully custom ASIC's. Our hardening techniques range from the traditional dedicated rad-hard foundries to a comprehensive Hardness-by-Design library that achieves strategic hardness levels in low-cost commercial foundries.
SSED has pioneered the use of radiation hardness-by-design (RHBD) techniques to develop a hardened digital library in a low cost commercial foundry demonstrating:
Total dose > 5 Mrad
Latchup > 5x1011 rad/s
Upset - 5x109 rad/s
As a foundry independent supplier with over 15 years experience, our success in radiation hardening is achieved by continuously developing new and novel hardening techniques that address the ever changing issues of emerging technologies and encompass a large array of process, device, circuit, and architectural approaches. Our designs span rad-hard challenges from the prompt radiation threats of strategic military systems to the long-term stresses of commercial satellites and deep space exploration.
Our radiation ASIC experience has been captured and incorporated into a suite of sophisticated computer-aided tools and design methodology. This environment provides the flexibility of design and multi-foundry sourcing that can deliver full custom ASIC's with performance tailored to each customer's requirements.
Our radiation hardened libraries and design techniques have been validated at the Boeing Radiation Effects Laboratory (BREL), universities and national lab test facilities.
Radiation-Hardened Design Services:
- Rad-Hard full custom VLSI, digital, analog, SoC, RF
- Rad-Hard IP
- Hardened-by-Design full custom ASIC's in low cost commercial foundries
- Rad-hard foundry selection and interface
- Rad-hard library development
- Radiation effects analysis
- Radiation testing at BREL
Boeing Radiation Effect Lab test services:
- Cobalt 60 gamma ray
- 33 MeV LINAC
- 7 MeV Flash X-ray
- 2.5 MV Dynamitron for electron/proton
- Nd-YAG Laser, Photo-current simulator
- Heavy Ion and Proton SEE