Post-silicon validation of radiation hardened microprocessor, embedded flash and test structures
Description
Digital systems are essential to the technological advancements in space exploration. Microprocessor and flash memory are the essential parts of such a digital system. Space exploration requires a special class of radiation hardened microprocessors and flash memories, which are not functionally disrupted in the presence of radiation. The reference design ‘HERMES’ is a radiation-hardened microprocessor with performance comparable to commercially available designs. The reference design ‘eFlash’ is a prototype of soft-error hardened flash memory for configuring Xilinx FPGAs. These designs are manufactured using a foundry bulk CMOS 90-nm low standby power (LP) process. This thesis presents the post-silicon validation results of these designs.
Date Created
The date the item was original created (prior to any relationship with the ASU Digital Repositories.)
2016
Agent
- Author (aut): Gogulamudi, Anudeep Reddy
- Thesis advisor (ths): Clark, Lawrence T
- Committee member: Holbert, Keith E.
- Committee member: Brunhaver, John
- Publisher (pbl): Arizona State University