Title
Design of a Triple-Node-Upset Self-Recoverable Latch for Aerospace Applications in Harsh Radiation Environments
Abstract
In harsh radiation environments, nanoscale CMOS latches have become more and more vulnerable to triple-node upsets (TNUs). This paper first proposes a latch design that can self-recover from any possible TNU for aerospace applications in the 16-nm CMOS technology. The proposed latch is mainly constructed from seven mutually feeding-back soft-error-interceptive modules (SIMs), any of which consists of two three-input C-elements and one two-input C-element. Due to the mutual feedback mechanism of SIMs and the dual-level soft-error interception of each SIM, the latch can self-recover from any possible TNU. Simulation results demonstrate the TNU self-recoverability from any key TNU for the proposed latch using redundant silicon area. Furthermore, using a high-speed path, the proposed latch saves about 95.45% transmission delay and 86.97% delay-power-area product, compared with the state-of-the-art TNU-tolerant latch that cannot provide complete TNU self-recoverability at all.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/TAES.2019.2925448
IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Harsh radiation,radiation-hardening-by-design,self-recoverability,soft error,triple-node upset (TNU)
Journal
56
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
0018-9251
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.48
0
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Aibin Yan1296.78
Xiangfeng Feng231.16
Yuanjie Hu372.95
Chaoping Lai491.27
Jie Cui531.83
Zhili Chen630.82
Kohei Miyase756238.71
Xiaoqing Wen879077.12