Gianluca Furano
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Integrated circuits employed in space applications generally have very low-volume production and high performance requirements. Therefore, the adoption of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) components and Third Party Intellectual Property cores (3PIPs) is of extreme interest to m ...
Soft errors in embedded systems' memories like single-event upsets and multiple-bit upsets lead to data and instruction corruption. Therefore, devices deployed in harsh environments, such as space, use fault-tolerant processors or redundancy methods to ensure critical applicat ...
Open-source IP cores for space
A processor-level perspective on soft errors in the RISC-V era
This paper discusses principles and techniques to evaluate processors for dependable computing in space applications. The focus is on soft errors, which dominate the failure rate of processors in space. Error, failure and propagation models from literature are selected and emp ...
The use of deep neural networks (DNNs) in terrestrial applications went from niche to widespread in a few years, thanks to relatively inexpensive hardware for both training and inference, and large datasets available. The applicability of this paradigm to space systems, where ...
This paper presents preliminary position on the use of the novel, free and open RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) for on-board electronics in space. The modular nature of this ISA, the availability of a rich software ecosystem, a rapidly growing community and a pool of ...
This paper analyzes the contribution of caches to failures at processor level due to soft errors. In order to do this, approximated methodologies to estimate the percentage of the total Sensitive Area (SA) of a processor for each unit during early design exploration are propos ...
A new methodology for Total Ionizing Dose (TID) tests is proposed. It is based on the employment of an on-chip 90 Sr/ 90 ...
Simplified Procedures for COTS TID Testing
A Comparison between 90Sr and 60Co
The domain of space avionic systems is changing extremely rapidly, compared to other technical domains in space-faring industry, under the pressure of an intense competition, the continuous emergence of new markets and players, the need for cost reduction, as well as an increa ...
This paper discusses radiation tests on complex System-on-Chip (SoC) controllers using Low-Energy Protons (LEPs). The aim of this novel set of guidelines is to be also applicable to System In Package (SIP) or hybrid components that are now often used to overcome printed circui ...
This paper presents an intended test setup and methodology for testing micro-controller SoCs against the effects of ionizing radiations. The method structure is based on a modular test sequence for test definition, coding, validation and setup. It will be illustrated by the re ...