The rosetta experiment: atmospheric soft error rate testing in differing technology FPGAs

Case Study: Soft Error Rate Analysis in Storage Systems

“…FPGAs are also frequently used in the implementation of the adapters that interface to either hosts or disk arrays. Typically, FPGA-based designs are more vulnerable to soft errors than Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) implementations [3,7]. Hence, the soft error reliability of these FPGAs is critical in the overall dependability of storage systems.…”

Radiation tolerance of an SRAM based FPGA used in a large tracking detector

“…To sufficiently reduce the probability for accumulation of SEUs, Xilinx [15] recommends that the reconfiguration rate should be at least an order of magnitude above the upset rate. As can be seen from table 1, a reconfiguration frequency cross section of the Xilinx Virtex-II Pro has also been measured by others and reported in literature to be 3.6 · 10 −14 cm 2 /bit for 63.3 MeV protons [18] and 2.98 · 10 −14 cm 2 /bit for an atmospheric (Hess) neutron spectrum (E kin >10 MeV) [10]. This discrepancy is mainly explained by the low energy proton beam used at OCL.…”

A New Hardware/Software Platform and a New 1/E Neutron Source for Soft Error Studies: Testing FPGAs at the ISIS Facility

“…The ISIS neutron beam features an energy spectrum that is similar to the terrestrial one with an acceleration factor between and , making it appropriate for accelerated tests of sea-level electronic applications, as demonstrated in the test runs performed on July [18][19][20]2006. Accelerated tests must always be checked against life-testing as pointed out in various contributions [13]- [15], but this kind of facilities is a powerful instrument and is strongly needed, especially in Europe.…”