Conveners
Session 2 - Atmospheric and terrestrial applications
- Françoise Bezerra (Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales - CNES)
Description
This session is dedicated to businesses within the realm of neutrons. We focus on the reliability of avionic systems, vehicles and data servers. The first half of the session is dedicated to users and companies expressing their needs in radiation testing. The second half is focussed on technical presentation of facilities capable of addressing those needs. The session ends with a Q&A session on the limitations of current offer and their possible evolutions.
Current and future automotive and autonomous applications are complex, forward-looking systems, involving large quantities of silicon, machine computing power and human brains and tears.
Their quality is prescribed, described and expected by demanding standards. These benevolent dictators set requirements for functional safety and reliability targets and development and manufacturing...
Terrestrial cosmic radiation (CR) is a significant factor for the reliability of power electronic devices, for all voltage classes from 150V to 6500V, for all device types and irrespective of the base material. Exact failure rate data are required to balance CR hardness and electrical performance for an optimum system design. Accelerated irradiation testing methods depend on the availability...
This talk will detail the aeronautic industry needs in radiation testing of avionic equipment and the applicable standards. It will also explore new foreseeable needs and constraints.
Chipir: A Fast Neutron Beamline for Single-Event-Effect Testing
Chris Frost
Neutron single-event-effects are an increasing problem in modern electronic devices and systems, causing a range of substantial reliability issues and failures. To address this problem the UK's ISIS Neutron and Muon Source designed and now operates ChipIr, a fast-neutron beamline that mimics the atmospheric-like...
TENIS the new irradiation station at ILL will be introduced to the community. The station is under construction and is foreseen to be operational at the beginning of 2021. Details about the project will be given concerning beam characteristics, dosimetry control, mechanical options and beamtime available.
We describe NEPIR, the fast-neutron irradiation facility under development at the 70 MeV cyclotron SPES facility of the INFN laboratory of Legnaro (LNL). The facility will be used to investigate neutron-induced Single Event Effects (SEE) in microelectronic devices and systems. It will be constructed in stages, according to the available funds. The initial funded configuration, based on a novel...
