Speaker
Mr
Agustin Fernandez Leon
(ESA)
Description
After the completion in 2012 of the first draft of the ECSS–Q-HB-60-02 handbook through an ESA contract with TIMA(F), an ECSS Working Group of space IC experts was created in 2013 to revise and improve the contents of this document. The WG is working in order to release a final draft in March 2015 for ECSS public review.
Then, after receiving and implementing the final suggestions, it should finally be released as a new ECSS Handbook before the end of 2015.
This handbook compiles a list of the most frequently used / best known mitigation techniques against radiation effects in ASICs and FPGAs.
It is written with multiple and different users in mind: ASIC and FPGA designers who are new to space, but also space IC designers who want further advise, engineers involved in the creation or
use of rad-hard IC library cells, IC layouts, space SoC designers (digital, analogue or mixed-signal), electronic-system and SW engineers who may also want or need to add mitigation outside the chip, customers of the developers/vendors of the mitigated ICs using the handbook as a reference to assess what techniques are used or not, etc.
The talk will summarise the history, goals, general structure and present status of the handbook and will put the focus on the techniques that can be applied to FPGAs.
Primary author
Mr
Agustin Fernandez Leon
(ESA)
