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RADSOL 2010
Thursday 25 March

The third RADSOL workshop (in French) will be held on June 3-4, 2010 at CNRS Paris, Campus Gérard Mégie.

After the success of the two first editions in 2008 and in 2009, RADSOL 2010 will continue the series of informal workshops dedicated to the problematics of radiation effects at ground level in the natural terrestrial environment.

 
On the Web : RADSOL 2010 website
Invited paper at ESREF 2010
Thursday 25 March

An invited talk will be given at the next 21st European Symposium on Reliability of Electron Devices, Failure Physics and Analysis, October 2010 11th - 15th, Monte Cassino Abbey and Gaeta - Italy.

This presentation is entitled:

Soft-Errors induced by terrestrial neutrons and natural alpha-particle emitters in advanced memory circuits at ground level

by Jean-Luc AUTRAN – Aix-Marseille University, IM2NP-CNRS (France).

The final paper will be published in a Special Issue of Microelectronics Reliability (Elsevier).

 
On the Web : ESREF 2010 website
Invited paper at ICICTD 2009
Monday 16 February

An invited talk will be given at the next International Conference on IC Design and Technology (ICICTD 2009) held in Austin, TX,May 18-20, 2009 about the ASTEP project. This presentation is entitled:

"Combined Altitude and Underground Real-Time SER Characterization of CMOS Technologies on the ASTEP-LSM Platform (invited)"

by J.L. Autran, P. Roche, S. Sauze, G. Gasiot, D. Munteanu, P. Loaiza, M. Zampaolo and J. Borel

 
RADSOL 2009
Monday 13 October

After the success of the first edition, RADSOL 2009 will be held in Paris in June 2009. This national workshop (in French) will address the growing influence of the radiative natural constraint on the reliability of electronic systems. This seminar is designed for payers, designers and systems integrators (motor transport, rail transport, computers, data processing) and offers a review of methods of evaluation and testing of the effects of natural radiation on the reliability of components and systems.

 
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Friday 26 March 2010
by Jean-Luc Autran
Presented at International Conference on IC Design & Technology (ICICTD 2010) – June 2-4, 2010
A GPU/CUDA Implementation of the Collection-Diffusion Model to Compute SER of Large Area and Complex Circuits
J.L. Autran, S. Uznanski, S. Martinie, P. Roche, G. Gasiot, D. Munteanu
We reported at ICICTD 2010 the first CUDA implementation of the collection-diffusion model to compute the soft-error rate (SER) of large area and/or complex circuits on graphics processing units (GPU). We detail the time parallelization introduced in the algorithm to accelerate by one order of magnitude the SER calculation. Code performances are evaluated on a NVIDIA Tesla C1060 GPU card for the calculation of the SER of a 65nm SRAM circuit subjected to an alpha-particle source irradiation.
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Friday 26 March 2010
by Jean-Luc Autran
Special Issue of the REE
Effects of Natural Radiation on Electronics at Atmospheric and Ground Levels
The French "Revue de l’Electricité et de l’Electronique" publishes a Special Issue (N°3, MARCH 2010) about the "Effects of Natural Radiation on Electronics at Atmospheric and Ground Levels".
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