Commercial Parts Radiation Testing

Abstract

The purpose of this research project was to explore a variety of commercially available electronic parts and then to expose these devices to radiation sources to discover what effects various radiation sources had on the systems total ionizing dose capability. The team at the University of New Mexico s COSMIAC Center performed radiation testing on a series of operational amplifiers, microcontrollers and microprocessor. The microprocessors tested include the popular PSOC, MSP430 and Beagle Bone Black platforms. While the MSP430 and Beagle Bone Black had excellent results, the PSOC proved unreliable for space applications.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 13, 2015
Accession Number
ADA616531

Entities

People

  • Craig J. Kief

Organizations

  • University of New Mexico

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Amplifiers
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Dose Rate
  • Electronic Components
  • Electronics
  • Field Effect Transistors
  • Field Programmable Gate Arrays
  • Governments
  • Low Earth Orbits
  • Microcontrollers
  • Microprocessors
  • Operational Amplifiers
  • Radiation
  • Semiconductors
  • Spacecraft

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.
  • Research Science/Academic Research

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Space