Title :
Neutron Soft Errors in Xilinx FPGAs at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Author :
George, Jeffrey S. ; Koga, Rocky ; McMahan, Margaret A.
Author_Institution :
Aerosp. Corp., El Segundo, CA
Abstract :
The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory cyclotron offers broad-spectrum neutrons for single event effects testing. We discuss results from this beamline for neutron soft upsets in Xilinx Virtex-4 and -5 field-programmable-gate-array (FPGA) devices.
Keywords :
beam handling techniques; cyclotrons; field programmable gate arrays; neutron effects; nuclear electronics; radiation hardening (electronics); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Virtex-4 field-programmable-gate-array device; Virtex-5 field-programmable-gate-array device; Xilinx FPGA; beamline; broad-spectrum neutrons; cyclotron; neutron soft errors; single event effect testing; Aerospace electronics; Cyclotrons; Field programmable gate arrays; Laboratories; Neutrons; Particle accelerators; Particle beam measurements; Particle beams; Protons; Testing;
Conference_Titel :
Radiation Effects Data Workshop, 2008 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Tucson, AZ
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2545-7
DOI :
10.1109/REDW.2008.28
