RADIATION-HARDENED VLSI SOC AND RAM – DESIGN FEATURES FOR BULK SILICON CMOS TECHNOLOGIES
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Abstract (English):
The effect of various types of radiation and heavy nuclear particles on VLSI fabricated using CMOS technologies for bulk silicon at a level of 250–90 nm is analyzed. Developed and certified on test crystals (TC) are constructive-topological and circuit solutions for elements of digital libraries, complex-functional RAM blocks and peripheral mixed-signal blocks for designing radiation-hardened VLSI of the “system-on-chip” (SoC) type and RAM of category RT (products with an increased level of radiation resistance). The methodology of radiation-hardened by design (RHBD) has been further developed. For CAD tools, a design environment for VLSI of the RT category was created for manufacturing at Russian factories using available CMOS bulk technologies. Based on this design environment, competitive radiation-hardened high-performance processor CMOS VLSI SoC and VLSI RAM were created. Basic technical solutions are protected by RF patents.

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bulk silicon, latch up, radiation hardness, radiation-hardened design, smart-functional block, VLSI system-on-a-chip, VLSI RAM, heavy nuclear particles
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