As Single Event Effects continue to be a severe reliability threat to older process nodes and advanced nodes in large devices, IROC Technologies is providing a large offering of test services to measure these effects. Using our own EDA solutions, we can analyze and mitigate Soft Error problems from single components to large systems, in terrestrial or space environments. IROC Technologies can provide a complete turn-key solution or adapted collaborative support to address your needs.
Our team has developed expertise for more than 20 years, supporting the top semiconductor companies and foundries. We have served more than 150 worldwide customers from the automotive, medical, networking, consumer, aeronautics, and space industries. We have built strong relationships with national and international test facilities to continuously make improvements and allow us to provide the best service to our customers.
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Our services include but not limited to:
- High Energy Neutrons shuttle and dedicated test campaigns
- Thermal Neutrons shuttle and dedicated test campaigns
- Protons and Heavy Ions dedicated test campaigns
- Co60 TID tests (in house)
- Alpha particles tests (in house)
- Fault injection using 14MeV neutrons and laser (X-Rays under development)
- Alpha emissivity measurements
- X-Rays dose testing
Please do not hesitate to contact us for all your needs related to radiation tests. We have already performed successful electrons and muons irradiation for special projects.
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Complete turnkey solution for component testing, from test setup development to extensive reporting - Compliance with JEDEC JESD standards and MIL/ESA methods
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Custom test hardware and test software developed to interface with various device type while meeting facility constraints -
Dosimetry monitoring to ensure correct beamline usage (positioning, uniformity, flux, …) -
Year-round shuttle test campaigns for Neutrons and testing for Alpha Particles, offering flexible scheduling - Expertise in consulting on your test needs, operations, and results
- Continuous improvement of test methodologies
- Strong relationships with local and international test facilities
Shuttle Test Campaigns
IROC provides regular test slots all year round for High Energy Neutrons and Thermal Neutrons for component testing to meet our customers schedule constraints and mitigate unexpected preparation risks including Alpha Particles tests conducted in-house.
We get beam time every 10 weeks to provide test services independently from test facility operating schedules.
Customer can join a campaign at any time pending compliant preparation time (required only a few weeks prior to test if we already have a compliant test
setup). If there are any delays in parts delivery (for example test vehicles) or preparation issues, the test will automatically be postponed to the next campaign. Our shuttle campaigns also allow us to test multiple devices from different customers at the same time and manage the availability of beam time more effectively.
IROC performs independent beam dosimetry measurements to assure correct and repeatable testing.
IROC offers a
comprehensive testing service for a wide range of single components including
SRAM, DRAM, FLASH, MCU, FPGA, SoC, Test Vehicle, etc. We provide a complete
service with minimum input from the customer (device units + datasheet) to
prepare and execute tests and deliver accurate results (report + error
database).
Advantages:
- Our DUT boards hold multiple units under beam, ensuring improved accuracy and reducing beam time. Our DUT boards are compatible with major test facilities around the world.
- We always provide the latest test methodologies from continuous improvements.
- We offer accurate dosimetry measurements and FIT computation.
We can also work with customer to reuse existing hardware/software to improve cost and/or meet technical constraints for very challenging devices.
Since component test results need to be derated to estimate impact at system level (fault propagation), this test approach can be used to obtain measured results.
- Detect and report failures with specific metrics (criticality, downtime, loss of functions, …)
- Identify most failing parts of the system (using iterative tests with focused beams)
- Measure error protection efficiency (hardware & software solutions)
We provide expert recommendations during preparation, test plan definition, campaign execution, beamtime estimation and booking, accurate dosimetry for experiments and operations in the radiation area, and reporting.
Alpha Particles Testing
TBD
Alpha Particles Counting
TBD
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SERTEST - Soft Error Rate measurement and radiation testing
SERTEST - Soft Error Rate measurement and radiation testing
TFIT - best-in-class cell level Soft Error detector, TFIT - best-in-class transistor level Soft Error detector - IROC TECHNOLOGIES