Dr
Giovanni Spiezia
(CERN, EN/STI on behalf of the RADWG)
30/06/2014, 09:30
The radiation environment encountered at high-energy accelerators differs from the environment relevant for space applications. The mixed field expected at modern accelerators is composed of charged and neutral hadrons (protons, pions, kaons and neutrons), photons, electrons and muons, ranging from very low (thermal) energies up to the TeV range.
This complex field is due to particles...
Mr
Shri Agarwal
(NASA/JPL-CalTech)
30/06/2014, 09:50
On December 20, 2013, the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) released revision K of microcircuit specification, MIL-PRF-38535. This document revision is significant because it updates existing requirements and creates requirements for new analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs) including those that are built as flip-chips and with columns attached. It also introduces and enables Class Y,...
Franco Bigongiari
(SITAEL S.p.A.)
30/06/2014, 10:10
In 2013, within the ECI (European Component Initiative) program of the European Space Agency, the activity “Assessment and characterization of Mixed Signal Technology” has been initiated. In this paper the activities performed for the assessment and selection of an European mixed signal technology suitable for the development of ASICs for space applications will be described. In order to drive...
Andrea Bonzo
(Dolphin Integration)
30/06/2014, 10:50
In the frame of the LOFT (Large Observatory For x-ray Timing) program, IRAP, CNES and Dolphin Integration have collaborated to develop a high performance ASIC (SIRIUS2) for interfacing Silicon Drift Detectors (SDDs) with the digital back-end
LOFT was candidate X-ray mission for the M3 slot of the Cosmic Vision program of the European Space Agency. It will be proposed again for the M4 mission....
Amine Rhouni
(Laboratory of Plasmas Physics (LPP/CNRS))
30/06/2014, 11:10
Important space scientific missions such as ESA CLUSTER (2000), NASA THEMIS (2007), NASA MMS (2014), ESA/JAXA BepiColombo (2016) and ESA JUICE (2024) have and will incorporate an ultra-sensitive three-axis Search Coil Magnetometer (SCM) to measure the magnetic field vector. Over the years, the instrument, which is designed by the LPP/CNRS, has become a reliable and essential device due to the...
Lorenzo Cassina
(Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))
30/06/2014, 11:30
The CLARO-CMOS is a prototype ASIC primarily designed for single-photon counting with multi-anode photomultipliers (Ma-PMTs). The chip features 5 ns peaking time, a recovery time to baseline smaller than 25 ns, and a power consumption in the order of 1 mW per channel. It was developed in the framework of the LHCb RICH detectors upgrade at CERN, but also found application in the readout of...
Mr
Juan Ramos-Martos
(Instituto de Microelectrónica de Sevilla)
30/06/2014, 11:50
A radiation-hardened-by-design (RHBD) digital library, developed for the Austria Microsystems (AMS) 0.35um CMOS technology has been applied in a mixed-signal ASIC that operates as a multi-channel data acquisition system for magnetometers using anisotropic magneto-resistances (AMR). The circuit has been tested in the Heavy-Ion facilities of the Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve...
Mr
David Kerwin
(Aeroflex)
30/06/2014, 12:10
There is a need for high voltage (>5V <100V) mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs) in a variety of applications having ionizing radiation environments, such as satellite/space, medical diagnostic imaging, nuclear power control & monitoring, and radiation oncology therapy. In some of these environments, the ionizing radiation includes ions (space, proton therapy) while in others, there the...
Mr
Paul-Emile Latimier
(ID MOS)
30/06/2014, 14:00
Two years ago, ID MOS had the first demand to develop mixed-signal ASIC for Space applications. After having a look to the existing PDKs, we discovered that there was still no full Space PDK available, especially with regard to device models. ID MOS decided to develop its own PDK, for the low space voltage applications. This PDK had to provide hardened components to reach the specified...
Dr
Fco. Rogelio Palomo Pinto
(Electronic Engineering Dept., Higher Technical School of Engineering, Sevilla University, Spain)
30/06/2014, 14:40
AFTU is an End-User Development (EDU) software tool for the analysis of Single Event Effects on microelectronic designs. AFTU takes user inputs as the design netlist, VLSI technology type, injection points and analysis heuristics classes to generate an expert software with two main functions: management of a simulation set through Spectre and a heuristic-based inference engine to classify and...
Mr
Alf Olsen
(IDEAS)
30/06/2014, 14:40
Poster
The IDE 3465 is an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) that has been designed for the readout of silicon detectors for charged particles. The chip has 20 inputs of charge sensitive pre-amplifiers (CSA), a total of 37 digital logic trigger outputs, and one analogue multiplexer output for pulse heights. Out of the 20 channels, 16 have a high gain with saturation at 2.6 pC, and 4 have...
Mr
Bruce Ferguson
(Electrical Engineer at Microsemi Corp)
30/06/2014, 14:40
Mixed signal spacecraft systems typically involve a digital processing portion to execute algorithms based on external events and the Analog Front End (AFE) that provides the interface between the benign digital processor environment and the “real world”. The digital processor is typically optimized for high speed computations using a low voltage process that helps reduce the power...
Prof.
Hélène Tap
(Université de Toulouse INP LAAS), Dr
Olivier Bernal
(Université de Toulouse INP LAAS)
30/06/2014, 14:40
In situ studies of the geospace environment, including space weather monitoring, is mainly based on the measurements of particles and fields. The particle content of the Earth’s magnetosphere is studied with electron and ion detectors in various energy ranges, from the cold and dense eV solar wind to the MeV radiation belts.
Here, the in situ high-energy (50 keV to 725keV) electron...
Bernard BANCELIN
(Atmel),
Daniel González
(Arquimea),
Franco Bigongiari
(SITAEL S.p.A.),
Herve Mugnier
(MIND), Mr
Nicolas Chantier
(e2v),
Paolo Carniti
(Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT)), Mr
Sandi Alexander Habinc
(Aeroflex)
30/06/2014, 14:40
Poster
Mr
Heinz-Volker Heyer
(Kayser-Threde GmbH)
30/06/2014, 14:40
Today there is no space suitable solution in Europe for high speed (e.g. 20Msps) and high resolution (16 bit) Analogue-to-Digital Converters (ADC) to process and digitise analogue output signals from image sensors or other high resolution instruments. Such devices would enable new applications with higher performance. In addition it would guarantee European independence and it would...
Mr
Giancarlo Franciscatto
(imec)
30/06/2014, 16:20
DARE180X is a mixed-signal library solution for radiation applications implemented in the low-power 0.18µm commercial technology from XFAB. This set of libraries comprising core standard cells, digital and analog I/O cells, analog IP and SRAM memory blocks is currently being developed using a guard-ring shielding approach to guarantee TID tolerance higher than 100krad as well as SEL hardening...
Prof.
Lawrence Pinsky
(University of Houston (US))
01/07/2014, 09:00
While it may seem like a retro-application to use hybrid pixel detectors for applications that consist primarily of observing incident charged particles, given the provenance of these detectors in high energy physics, in actuality the challenges faced are surprisingly novel, at least for these devices. While the space radiation environment consists of mainly charged particles, the routinely...
Dr
Jan-Rutger Schrader
(SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research)
01/07/2014, 09:30
In the FAIR project (Front-end ASIC for Infrared detector Readout), an IC is developed for the readout of state-of-the-art NIR/SWIR detectors for future Earth observation missions and astrophysics. The chip consists of a high-resolution ADC with integrated offset correction and adjustable gain, and voltage regulators to generate bias/reference voltages for the detector. The chip is designed to...
Bruce Ferguson
(Microsemi Corporation)
01/07/2014, 09:50
Mixed signal spacecraft systems typically involve a digital processing portion to execute algorithms based on external events and the Analog Front End (AFE) that provides the interface between the benign digital processor environment and the “real world”. The digital processor is typically optimized for high speed computations using a low voltage process that helps reduce the power...
Mr
Philippe AYZAC
(THALES ALENIA SPACE, France)
01/07/2014, 10:10
THALES ALENIA SPACE is the European leader for Satellite Systems and since 1993 the company has been designing and developing an important series of space used Mixed-Analog ASICs. Major actor for high resolution electronics for Earth Observation and Scientific missions, THALES ALENIA SPACE has been granted a CNES contract for the development of a high performance, low voltage CMOS integrated...
Quentin Morrissey
(STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)
01/07/2014, 10:30
An ASIC designed to fulfil the role of a general purpose bias voltage generator for CCDs in space based camera systems is presented. The STAR (Space Telemetry And Reference) chip has been developed to reduce both the size and power consumption of the circuitry required to bias a science grade CCD. Implemented in a 0.35µm 50V tolerant CMOS process, STAR provides 24 independent voltage outputs...
Mr
Andrew Christie
(Peregrine Semiconductor UK Ltd)
01/07/2014, 11:10
Digital Step Attenuators (DSA’s) are broadly used within Satellite Payloads to adjust signal levels either as standalone blocks or as a key part of complex systems. Wherever a DSA is employed its critical function is delivering accurate, consistent, repeatable level control in a difficult space environment. The environment in space creates additional challenges due to the wide range of...
Mr
Franco Bigongiari
(SITAEL S.p.A.)
01/07/2014, 11:30
Nowadays, on-board telecommand receivers for space applications consume an important percentage of the overall offered power of the satellite, especially due to their always ON need of operation.
Decoders, in charge of elaborating received data and of providing error correction according to redundancy introduced by related encoding protocol are one of the fundamental components of a satellite...
Mr
Jesús López
(Arquimea)
01/07/2014, 11:50
Transmission of large amount of data is extensively used in communication among spacecraft and satellite onboard systems during a mission. LVDS (Low-Voltage Differential Signaling) Drivers and Receivers are key to provide means of sending/receiving data along twisted pair cable at very high data-rates with low power and excellent EMI performance. Rad-tolerant and Rad-hard ANSI EIA/TIA 644A...
Mr
Thierry MASSON
(STMicroelectronics)
01/07/2014, 12:10
A big challenge in data transmission is the constant increase in data-rate. Low Voltage Differential Signaling (LVDS) is a high speed, low power general purpose standard interface. Our paper presents LVDS driver and receiver circuits specifically designed, packaged and qualified for use in aerospace environment. The intended application of these devices (RHFLVDS31/32 quad drivers/receivers) is...
Mr
Volodymyr Burkhay
(Space IC GmbH)
01/07/2014, 14:00
In this paper the results of SEE tests on European Point-of-Load DC-DC converter and Extended Common Mode LVDS components using TFSMART2 technology will be presented.
TFSMART2 is an HV BCD technology on SOI with the smallest feature size of 0.35μm. During the AMICSA 2012 conference an unbiased TID radiation test of this technology using the same components has been presented.
This paper...
Mr
Marc Fossion
(ThalesAleniaSpace)
01/07/2014, 14:40
Thales Alenia Space is engaged in the development of a radiation hardened mixed-mode circuit: the DPC (digital programmable controller). This device is a major breakthrough in the availability of radiation hardened highly integrated micro-controller.
The construction of the DPC is the result of 4 party project involving Imec, ICsense & Thales Alenia Space under an ESA development. This...
Erik Heijne
(Czech Technical University (CZ))
01/07/2014, 15:00
Mr
Tuvia Liran
(Ramon Chips)
01/07/2014, 15:40
The RCADA mixed signal chip is currently under development by Ramon Chips and Silantrix, combining the rad-hard RadSafe™ libraries and methodologies from Ramon Chips and Silantrix proprietary architecture for data converters.
The extreme wideband capabilities of RCADA require very high performance digital processing (for pre-processing and for “digitally assisted analog” methods), as well as...
Mr
Konstantinos Makris
(ISD S.A.)
01/07/2014, 16:00
We present a monolithic, very high resolution analog-to-digital converter suitable for high precision space applications. The converter is a low-noise, low sampling rate, radiation hardened device optimized to operate in a frequency range from 0.1mHz to 1kHz with nominal output sampling frequency of 6 kHz. The ADC receives a differential voltage input and outputs 24-bit word samples. A simple...
Agustin Fernandez Leon
(ESA),
Boris Glass
(European Space Agency)
01/07/2014, 16:20
