06-019b Reprogrammable FPGA Reliability

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06-019b Reprogrammable FPGA Reliability
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Description
Benefits

• Develop effective and cost efficient
  qualification procedures for multi design
  missions.
• Provide missions with guidance to develop best
  design practices.
• Develop accurate failure models for enhanced life
  prediction
• Design files
• Test methodologies
• Reports

This task will research, develop, and implement
a series of designs in Virtex II FPGAs that allow
for detailed functional testing that can then be
related to long-term reliability and product
qualification of the FPGAs. This series of
experiments will also take advantage of hardware
and software developed as part of FY05 NEPP
tasks. The development effort will focus on
designs that allow for the study of two main
parameters, t_pd stability and clock skew. These
two parameters are basic to all modern FPGA
designs. They also are sensitive to changes at
the more fundamental device physics level,
including inverter leakage, NBTI and interconnect
capacitance. Because of this sensitivity, a
quantitative tie-in between device physics
parameters and overall design qualification can
be made. Technologies from 90nm to 0.6um are
presently available.  Our plan is to purchase
Xilinx products from the Spartan and Virtex
families that allow us to cover several different
generations.
Deliverables
Total Full-Cost 250K
Schedule/Costs
Risks
NASA and Non-NASA Organizations/Procurements

Lead Center/PI D. Sheldon Co-Inv R. Roosta, B.
Bell, Y. Chen Center Funding Split JPL -300K