Radiation-Hardened ASIC Design and Structured ASIC Platform Design.
Microelectronics Research Development Corporation (Micro-RDC) provides research, design, and engineering services for radiation-hardened microelectronics. It serves industrial, military, and aerospace customers with solutions for radiation-hardened-by-design (RHBD) chips, drawing on expertise spanning from semiconductor physics to full system integration. The practice develops digital, mixed-signal, and analog technologies to ensure microcircuit reliability and radiation tolerance in harsh space and nuclear environments.
Development of custom application-specific integrated circuits engineered to withstand nuclear and natural space radiation.
Support for structured ASIC development, utilizing silicon-proven platforms and custom 32-bit processors.
Creation and hardening of standard cell libraries optimized for total ionizing dose tolerance using specialized layout techniques.
Packaging design utilizing High Density Interconnect (HDI) and ball grid array (BGA) solutions to survive extreme acceleration and temperature cycling.
Full-lifecycle engineering support to transition hardened chip designs into physical hardware and target systems.
Designing, taping out, and assembling custom hardware development boards for post-silicon testing.
Integrating custom chips into target systems, including the development of supporting C APIs.
Scientific analysis and design hardening to mitigate adverse radiation effects at the transistor, circuit, and system level.
Mitigating single event upsets and single event transients using temporal sampling, voting circuits, and proprietary interlocking architectures.
Experimental characterization and testing of microelectronics components to evaluate radiation tolerance and response mechanisms.
Defense · Aerospace · Space · Semiconductors · Electronics
Space · Client: U.S. Government
A Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) development project focused on engineering advanced memory systems designed for radiation tolerance and reliability in space missions.
Space · Client: Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)
A research and development initiative focused on building a radiation-hardened cache memory system, sponsored as an SBIR Phase 1 program by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL).
Space · Client: Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)
An SBIR Phase 1 development program focused on high-capacity non-volatile memory architectures designed for reliable operation in space environments, sponsored by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL).
Defense · Client: Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)
An SBIR Phase 1 development program focused on high-frequency, radiation-hardened mixed-mode microelectronics, sponsored by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL).