Neutron irradiation of an ARM Cortex-M0 Core

Conference Paper (2018)
Author(s)

Fabio Malatesta (Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, TU Delft - Aerospace Engineering)

Marco Ottavi (Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata)

Giancarlo Cardarilli (Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata)

Gianluca Furano (European Space Agency (ESA))

Alessandra Menicucci (TU Delft - Aerospace Engineering)

Carlo Cazzaniga (Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata)

Carla Andreani (Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata)

Roberto Senesi (Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata)

Claudia Scatigno (Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata)

Research Group
Space Systems Egineering
DOI related publication
https://doi.org/10.1109/RADECS45761.2018.9328652 Final published version
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Publication Year
2018
Language
English
Research Group
Space Systems Egineering
Article number
9328652
Publisher
IEEE
ISBN (electronic)
9781728102160
Event
18th European Conference on Radiation and Its Effects on Components and Systems, RADECS 2018 (2018-09-16 - 2018-09-21), Goteborg, Sweden
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Abstract

In this paper we report the measurement of the soft-error sensitivity of an ARM Cortex M0 core conducted at the ISIS ChipIR neutron irradiation facility. The test setup also included a CMOS camera sensor used for dosimetry estimation. The results provide the core memory and internal resources cross section thus giving useful information for developing ad-hoc fault tolerant techniques on sensitive parts.