In the context of Space, electronic devices must be hardened against radiation and must be prepared to operate at extremely low temperatures. However, sample sellers only guarantee their operation at typical industrial or military ranges, which would typically involve the use of heaters. In addition, the project framework requires making systems with high impacts and vibrations compatible.
Following this line, IMSE/US has extensive experience in the development of radiation-hardened ASICs and mixed-signal IPs and
digital libraries in different CMOS technologies (350nm, 180nm, 65nm) for very low temperatures (<126ºC) coming from
different ASICs previously integrated and qualified. Such IPs, and others to be designed if necessary, are intended to be integrated (via Europractice) as bare samples and exploited in the context of the project. This can be understood as a novelty in terms of IPs for SiPs prepared for operations at extremely low temperatures. These IPs owned by IMSE/US together with the parts accessible on the market can form a library/stock that can be enriched over time.
This subproject pursues the development of its own SiP capacity, in accordance with the instrumentation and devices planned for its
application on Mars within the project (low temperatures, impacts, vibrations, etc.). On the other hand, it also pursues the creation of a stock of integrated IPs (already tested at low temperatures) and commercial circuits for use in the integration of SiPs with a drastic reduction in time and associated cost with respect to ASIC solutions, but taking advantage of the miniaturization capacity and performance improvement over a discrete solution. All this work is concentrated in two lines:
- Development of SiP integration capacity for the miniaturization of systems and instruments.
- Internal Set of Parts / Bare dies: Identification, integration and characterization of a selected set of hardened IPs
and compatible with low temperatures and identified in the context of the project as of special interest.
Project PID2022-137518OB-C22 funded by MICIU/AEI /10.13039/501100011033/ and FEDER 'Una manera de hacer Europa'.
