Designing Electronics for Use in Radiation Environments

In this talk, an overview will be pro­vid­ed on the nec­es­sary steps a new pro­ject will need to take to en­sure the re­quire­ments in terms of re­silience to the dose ac­cu­mu­lat­ed and sin­gle event ef­fects. Information will be given on the dif­fer­ent de­sign op­tions and the avail­able tools de­sign­ers can em­ploy to aug­ment the tol­er­ance of the sys­tem as well as the tech­niques de­vel­oped to mit­i­gate the prob­lems that can arise in ra­di­a­tion en­vi­ron­ments. It will be also shown how the knowl­edge of the ex­pect­ed flu­ence and flux, to­geth­er with the given spec­i­fi­ca­tions will dic­tate the con­cep­tu­al de­sign, the com­po­nent choic­es lim­it­ed to use, and the re­quired val­i­da­tion and qual­i­ty as­sur­ance through ir­ra­di­a­tion test­ing that will be nec­es­sary to be under­tak­en.