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9 years ago

Radiation Testing of Altera Devices

I'm looking to see if any radiation testing has been performed on Altera devices. I'm not in need of radiation hard FPGAs, but will be operating in a moderate radiation environment, so am looking fo...
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9 years ago

Xilinx and Actel (Microsemi) have done extensive radiation testing on some of their families. To my knowledge Altera has not, but if I'm wrong about that hopefully someone who knows better will chime in.

Edit: I may have underestimated how much testing Altera does in this area:

https://www.altera.com/support/quality-and-reliability/seu.html

But whenever I've read about space and other rad-hard applications for FPGAs, Xilinx and Actel have been the only players mentioned.