Xilinx Radiation Test Consortium

The Xilinx Radiation Test Consortium (XRTC) was founded in 2002 by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Xilinx to evaluate re-configurable FPGAs for aerospace applications. XRTC brings together top experts from industry, government, and academia to test and characterize radiation effects and mitigation techniques for re-configurable FPGAs.

The Xilinx Radiation Test Consortium strives to:

• provide independent and unbiased testing and characterization of radiation effects in re-configurable FPGAs.
• provide independent and unbiased testing and characterization of radiation effect mitigation techniques in re-configurable FPGAs.

Radiation Testing

Through experimentation at facilities throughout the U.S., the XRTC characterizes radiation effects on Xilinx FPGAs and configuration PROMs for:

• Latchup
• Static Single-Event Upset (SEU)
• Dynamic Single-Event Upset (SEU)
• Single Event Functional Interrupt (SEFI)
• Total Ionizing Dose (TID)

Mitigation Testing

In addition to characterizing radiation effects in re-configurable FPGAs and Configuration PROMs, the XRTC evaluates radiation effect mitigation techniques such as:

• Configuration Scrubbing
• Triple Module Redundancy (TMR)