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There certainly things you can do in the design to be radiation hardened, it's not just in the manufacturing. The LEON [1] processor, initally designed by ESA f
by noselasd 4y ago
There certainly things you can do in the design to be radiation hardened, it's not just in the manufacturing.
The LEON [1] processor, initally designed by ESA for space missions incorporates quite many countermeasures in its IP core.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEON https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEON
- skissane 4y ago> incorporates quite many countermeasures in its IP core How hard would it be for SiFive to take one of their existing designs, which lacks those countermeasures, and add them?
- kramerger 4y agoHard but not impossible. Maybe too expensive to make sense for SiFive? IIRC, all internal logic will require triple mode redundancy and all type of memory will need ECC plus scrubbing.