Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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9845795 | Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment | 2005 | 18 Pages |
Abstract
The XAA1.2 is a custom ASIC chip for space applications built using a 0.8μm complementary metal oxide semiconductor technology on epitaxial layer. It has been selected as the front-end electronics chip of the SuperAGILE experiment on board the AGILE space mission, although it is not specifically designed as a radiation hard device. To study the XAA1.2 sensitivity to Single Event Effects and Total Dose Effects we irradiate this chip at the SIRAD facility of the Laboratori Nazionali INFN of Legnaro. In this paper we describe the experimental set-up and the measurements. We then discuss how the results can be scaled to the cosmic rays environment in a low-Earth orbit.
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Authors
Ettore Del Monte, Luigi Pacciani, Geiland Porrovecchio, Paolo Soffitta, Enrico Costa, Giuseppe Di Persio, Marco Feroci, Marcello Mastropietro, Ennio Morelli, Massimo Rapisarda, Alda Rubini, Dario Bisello, Andrea Candelori, Alexandre Kaminski,