Novel Radiation Hardened Latch Design with Cost-Effectiveness for Safety-Critical Terrestrial Applications

  • Aibin Yan*
  • , Zhen Wu
  • , Lu Lu
  • , Zhili Chen
  • , Jie Song
  • , Zuobin Ying
  • , Patrick Girard
  • , Xiaoqing Wen
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

To meet the requirements of both cost-effectiveness and high reliability for safety-critical terrestrial applications, this paper proposes a novel radiation hardened latch design, namely HLCRT. The HLCRT latch mainly consists of a single-node-upset self-recoverable cell, a 3-input C-element, and an inverter. If any two inputs of the C-element suffer from a double-node-upset (DNU), or if one node inside the cell together with another node outside the cell suffer from a DNU, the latch still has correct values on its output node, i.e., the latch is effectively DNU hardened. Simulation results demonstrate the DNU tolerance of the proposed latch. Moreover, due to the use of fewer transistors, clock gating technologies, and a high-speed path, the proposed latch saves about 444.80% delay, 150.50% power, 72.66% area, and 2029.63% delay-power-area product on average, compared with state-of-the-art DNU hardened latch designs.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2019 IEEE 28th Asian Test Symposium, ATS 2019
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages43-48
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781728126951
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2019
Externally publishedYes
Event28th IEEE Asian Test Symposium, ATS 2019 - Kolkata, India
Duration: 10 Dec 201913 Dec 2019

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Asian Test Symposium
Volume2019-December
ISSN (Print)1081-7735

Conference

Conference28th IEEE Asian Test Symposium, ATS 2019
Country/TerritoryIndia
CityKolkata
Period10/12/1913/12/19

Keywords

  • Radiation hardening
  • cost effectiveness
  • double node upset
  • latch design
  • soft error

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