SBIR/STTR Award attributes
Traditionally, tactical satellite and guided missile systems require numerous radiation-hardened microelectronic components to meet computational processing performance needs and High-Altitude Exo-Atmospheric Nuclear Survivability (HAENS) specifications. Rad-hard components are cost-prohibitive, power inefficient, and typically lag behind leading-edge Consumer Off-the-Shelf (COTS) processor performance metrics by more than a decade. Thus creating an opportunity to integrate both rad-hard and up-screened System on Chip (SoC) platforms into a Circumvention and Recover (C&R) system. C&R is a system approach to harden electronics to nuclear weapon high-dose rate pulsed radiation effects even though certain functions are implemented with components with lower radiation-hardness levels. C&R is a survival scheme to protect components from some effects of prompt ionizing radiation and large current surges.
