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Radiation Hardness Assurance
The CERN radiation environment can lead to extremely harsh operating conditions for electronic systems. Many electronic systems at CERN must operate reliably in radiation environments. The design of such systems requires that the performance of each individual semiconductor component but also of the entire system is characterized under a radiation environment. Radiation accelerates the degradation…
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RadTol Wireless
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CrateBo
The CHARM Radiation Test Board (CRaTeBo) is a FPGA radiation-testing platform which allows to test FPGAs and FPGA designs in representative LHC radiation environments in the CERN CHARM facility without having to care about the radiation tolerance of the platform or the communication link. It is a versatile radiation-tolerant board where each part of the…
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SpaceRadMon
Radiation poses a major threat to satellites. Galactic cosmic rays, solar flares and particles trapped in the Earth’s magnetosphere can have severe consequences on a satellite’s integrity, as the high energies associated with them can damage or even destroy its electronic components. CERN faces similar problems inside the Large Hadron Collider’s (LHC) tunnels and has…
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Floating Gate
The Floating Gate DOSimeter (FGD0S) is a digital radiation sensor based. Sensor output is a frequency modulated pulse train proportional to radiation dose. Internal counters allow radiaton dose digital value to be read via SPI interface. This sensor, due to its higher sensitivity and lower noise than RadFet, is proposed as a new solution that…
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BatMon
At CERN, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) hosts many electronic systems based on components off the shelf (COTS) that are exposed to a mixed radiation field. The energy spectra of particles at LHC can range from a few megaelectronvolt thermal neutrons (ThNs) to the gigaelectronvolt range and as a result, these components can be affected…
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RadMon
The CERN Radiation MONitoring System (RadMON) is a radiation tolerant monitoring in-house system developed by the EPR section. This system is entirely based on commercially qualified components (COTS). More than 400 units are deployed internally, in the different particle accelerator and experiments at CERN, and externally, such as at J-PARC, the Japan Proton Accelerator Research…