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- Title
Investigation of Single-Event Effects for Space Applications: Instrumentation for In-Depth System Monitoring.
- Authors
Mattos, André M. P.; Santos, Douglas A.; Luza, Lucas M.; Gupta, Viyas; Dilillo, Luigi
- Abstract
Ionizing radiation induces the degradation of electronic systems. For memory devices, this phenomenon is often observed as the corruption of the stored data and, in some cases, the occurrence of sudden increases in current consumption during the operation. In this work, we propose enhanced experimental instrumentation to perform in-depth Single-Event Effects (SEE) monitoring and analysis of electronic systems. In particular, we focus on the Single-Event Latch-up (SEL) phenomena in memory devices, in which current monitoring and control are required for testing. To expose the features and function of the proposed instrumentation, we present results for a case study of an SRAM memory that has been used on-board PROBA-V ESA satellite. For this study, we performed experimental campaigns in two different irradiation facilities with protons and heavy ions, demonstrating the instrumentation capabilities, such as synchronization, high sampling rate, fast response time, and flexibility. Using this instrumentation, we could report the cross section for the observed SEEs and further investigate their correlation with the observed current behavior. Notably, it allowed us to identify that 95% of Single-Event Functional Interrupts (SEFIs) were triggered during SEL events.
- Subjects
EUROPEAN Space Agency; ELECTRONIC systems; ELECTRONIC surveillance; HEAVY ions; IONIZING radiation; DATA corruption; IRRADIATION; STATIC random access memory
- Publication
Electronics (2079-9292), 2024, Vol 13, Issue 10, p1822
- ISSN
2079-9292
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/electronics13101822