Gregory Bakker

Radiation Effects in 65 nm Flash-Based Field Programmable Gate Array

Since it was first introduced, Flash-based FPGA had been well received by digital designers in aerospace and high-reliability applications. Its popularity owes to, unlike other commercially available FPGA based on antifuse or SRAM technologies, that the Flash-based FPGA has the unique advantage of being both non-volatile and reprogrammable. It is advantageous to antifuse-based for programmability and to SRAM-based for non-volatility. This characteristic warrantees small foot-print and resiliency in hazardous operating environment, especially against bit-errors by particle radiations.