Speaker
Tim Pike
(Airbus DS)
Description
The Spartan 6 from Xilinx is an SRAM based military grade FPGA product offering attractive performance for a low power consumption. This presentation covers an investigation by Airbus DS to evaluate this part for space application. Initial radiation results have shown that the Spartan 6 is latch-up free. These results are presented and complementary tests to complete the radiation analysis discussed. Technology investigations and reliability analysis indicate that the Spartan 6 could satisfy the environmental requirements of more demanding space missions. Finally PCB mounting of this part is less challenging than other high pin count FPGA’s: it comes in a moderately sized 676 ball PBGA package and first mounting trials at Airbus DS have proved encouraging . An outlook to perform a formal qualification of this component to ECSS-Q-ST-60-13C concludes this presentation.
Primary author
Tim Pike
(Airbus DS)
Co-authors
Gerard Salvaterra
(Airbus DS)
Nadia Wazad
(Airbus DS)
