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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

At JPL, the missions with the highest radiation requirements use Xilinx Virtex-5QV devices which are rated to 1Mrad. Other devices use Microsemi RTAX and ProASIC devices.

The Microsemi SmartFusion2 devices are supposed to be somewhat rad-hard. I purchased a couple of SmartFusion2 kickstarter kits but have not had time to play with them.

I have asked Altera about rad-hard FPGAs and their testing, but never received a particularly satisfying answer.

Cheers,

Dave