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Rad-Hard Applications
For more than 25 years, Atmel France Aerospace, an Atmel subsidiary in France, has been a leading provider of highly integrated solutions to the aerospace industry.
Atmel France Aerospace serves the worldwide market with processors, memories and FPGAs. We are a leader in Europe for the ASIC business and a worldwide leader for the SPARC processor-based solutions, with more than 3,500 flight models delivered.
Atmel France Aerospace gives customers access to the latest innovative commercial technologies by adapting them to rad-hard applications requirements. The 180nm process is in full production, and Atmel France Aerospace is now introducing a 150nm mixed process, 90nm and 65nm.
The same manufacturing lines are used to produce automotive and rad-hard devices. This dual-use approach allows highly competitive and proven, reliable solutions.
Our circuits are available in rad-hard versions that meet the stringent requirements (cumulated dose, latch-up and transient phenomena) of space applications. Design and manufacturing facilities reach international quality standards recognition and are QML-V or ESCC certified.
System integration is a challenge for all our customers and Atmel France’s offering is one of the most complete and cost-effective available on the market.
Space Rad-Hard ICs Devices
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Space-qualified standard cell libraries |
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The Atmel Aerospace ASIC offering is enriched with new libraries each time the latest generation technology is introduced. As an example, the ninth generation of Aerospace ASIC technologies, the ATC18RHA series, is a standard cells library characterized on the Atmel CMOS 0.18µm technology. Combined with these libraries are multiple options for embedding dedicated blocks, and a large choice of complex hermetic packages. A MPW (Multi Project Wafer) service allows the users to lower the NRE.
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Complete rad-hard SpaceWire network |
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Atmel works with some of its key customers to make their ASIC designs available as standard products when they correspond to commonly used functions on the market. With this approach, Atmel offers space customers a set of SpaceWire dedicated products allowing them to build a complete SpaceWire network based on rad-hard devices.
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Upgraded commercial FPGA to meet space application requirements |
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Atmel offers new alternatives for space applications with the SRAM-based FPGA series. In addition to their re-programmability, Atmel FPGAs support innovative built-in Single Event Upset (SEU) protection. This allows application design without using mitigation techniques that can triple the gate count, thus saving development resources and FPGA cost.
Atmel rad-hard FPGAs are intended for low gate count designs requiring low-power applications.
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Rationalization of part variations with respect to size and format, package, power consumption and speed |
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Atmel has a long track record with memories (SRAM, DPRAM, FIFO and EEPROM) and its current space memory offering supports the space industry efforts for the rationalization of part variations with respect to size and format, package, power consumption and speed.
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ESA LEON2 FT (Fault Tolerant) VHDL model |
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Over the last 16 years, Atmel has steadily built a space microprocessor strategy based on the SPARC® architecture. With worldwide sales of over 3000 flight models featuring the Atmel® TSC695 — and already over 300 flight models with the Atmel AT697 — the Atmel SPARC processor roadmap boasts an unrivalled flight heritage.
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