Design considerations for a radiation hardened nonvolatile memory
The SA3823 64K EEPROM was developed for both weapon and space applications. The circuit was designed for fabrication in a CMOS/SNOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor/Silicon Nitride Oxide Semiconductor) process since this process offers maximum radiation hardness for nonvolatile circuits. [1--6] Specific aspects of the circuit design were influenced by each of the radiation environments of concern. Total dose radiation effects were a factor in the memory cell and sense amplifier designs. Power distribution to the various latches was designed to tolerate the photocurrents generated during a transient radiation pulse. Single event upset (SEU) concerns were accounted for in the design of the latches and the control logic. The SA3823 is a 8K x 8 bit EEPROM which is partitioned into 128 pages with 64 bytes in each page. Data is programmed into the memory one page at a time. Writing data into the memory is a two step process: loading 64 bytes into the data-in latches and then programming the latched data into a page of the memory.
- Research Organization:
- Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC04-76DP00789
- OSTI ID:
- 6618049
- Report Number(s):
- SAND-93-0144C; CONF-930704-2; ON: DE93007592
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Nuclear and space radiation effects conference, Snowbird, UT (United States), 19-23 Jul 1993
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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