Rad-Hard Circuits for Complete System-on-Chip Integration of SmallSat Electronics on Standard Non-Rad-Hard CMOS Including FinFETs

Rad-Hard Circuits for Complete System-on-Chip Integration of SmallSat Electronics on Standard Non-Rad-Hard CMOS Including FinFETs

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1. SmallSat Compute Is Thermally Constrained

• SmallSats are packing more autonomy, sensing, and payload processing into tighter volumes.
• Power budget, heat removal, and radiation reliability constrain sustained on-orbit computation.
• Off-chip shielding increases mass and volume
• Redundancy and guard-banding increase switching energy. 
• This work targets lower heat generation and higher reliability inside the silicon.