Next generation RadSafe™ technology for SoCs

Tuvia Liran, Ran Ginosar, Dov Alon, Reuven Dobkin, Michael Goldberg

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Abstract

The next generation RadSafe™ technology is dedicated to advance System on Chip (SoC) devices for space applications of digital signal processing and micro-processors. The technology should maximize processing performance by combining advanced micro-architecture, advanced silicon technology and high speed interfacing to peripheral devices. However, the requirements for very high reliability, cost and availability limit the use of the most advanced technologies. For the next generation RadSafe™ technology we selected the 0.13μm technology. It provides significant improvement of performance and power, while this technology is mature, and available for affordable price. The improved design infrastructure includes improvements of the standard cells, I/O cells, SRAMs and DLLs. The new cores include high speed SERDES and DDR I/F. An improved packaging technology, name RCpack™, is introduced. It provides improved pin count and signal integrity while complying with space requirements. The new capabilities will enable the implementation of space grade RC64 - a many-core processor that will provide ∼10G instructions per second [2], mostly for high performance signal processing.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of DASIA 2012 - DAta Systems In Aerospace
StatePublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes
EventDAta Systems In Aerospace, DASIA 2012 - Dubrovnik, Croatia
Duration: 14 May 201216 May 2012

Publication series

NameEuropean Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP
Volume701 SP
ISSN (Print)0379-6566

Conference

ConferenceDAta Systems In Aerospace, DASIA 2012
Country/TerritoryCroatia
CityDubrovnik
Period14/05/1216/05/12

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