Radiation characteristics and SEU rates in NEqO environment using SPENVIS

RazakSat1 was launched at Near Equatorial Orbit (NEqO) where Trapped Protons/Electrons (TP/TE) and Galactic Cosmic Rays (GCR) has intensive effect on satellite's memory like SRAM based FPGA. Due to this devastating effect, it is important to investigate the radiation environment of the orbit to...

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Main Authors: Benkara, Souaad, Mahmud, Manzar, Ab Rahim, Rosminazuin, Hasbullah, Nurul Fadzlin, Sabri, Sharizal Fadlie
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Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2016
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author Benkara, Souaad
Mahmud, Manzar
Ab Rahim, Rosminazuin
Hasbullah, Nurul Fadzlin
Sabri, Sharizal Fadlie
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Mahmud, Manzar
Ab Rahim, Rosminazuin
Hasbullah, Nurul Fadzlin
Sabri, Sharizal Fadlie
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description RazakSat1 was launched at Near Equatorial Orbit (NEqO) where Trapped Protons/Electrons (TP/TE) and Galactic Cosmic Rays (GCR) has intensive effect on satellite's memory like SRAM based FPGA. Due to this devastating effect, it is important to investigate the radiation environment of the orbit to predict the SEU rate for 6T SRAM, which is the building block of SRAM based FPGA. This study investigates the radiation environment in NEqO specifically for the orbit of RazakSat satellite. Solar Event Particles (SEPs), Trapped Protons/Electrons (TP/TE) and Galactic Cosmic Rays (GCR) are the three main sources of radiation which are taken to consideration in this study. The fluxes spectra of these three types are simulated and SEU rates for 180nm 6T SRAM are predicted using SPENVIS models for NEqO orbit. The results show that GCR fluxes are the most dominant at NEqO which reached to 105 MeV whereas TE has 4MeV and TP has the second dominant fluxes with 400 MeV. However, if the magnetic shielding atmosphere is on, there are no solar particles fluxes and almost no SEU was detected. Results also illustrate that SEU rates at NEqO is 0.5 upset/bit day when there is no shielding to the device (6T SRAM) but this rates reduced by 1.6 × 10 6 times when the device shielded by 0.5 g/cm 2 of Aluminium. Comparisons of NEqO with polar orbit in terms of shielding effect and SEU rates are also presented in this study.
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spelling iium-728992019-06-26T04:18:09Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/72899/ Radiation characteristics and SEU rates in NEqO environment using SPENVIS Benkara, Souaad Mahmud, Manzar Ab Rahim, Rosminazuin Hasbullah, Nurul Fadzlin Sabri, Sharizal Fadlie TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering TK5101 Telecommunication. Including telegraphy, radio, radar, television RazakSat1 was launched at Near Equatorial Orbit (NEqO) where Trapped Protons/Electrons (TP/TE) and Galactic Cosmic Rays (GCR) has intensive effect on satellite's memory like SRAM based FPGA. Due to this devastating effect, it is important to investigate the radiation environment of the orbit to predict the SEU rate for 6T SRAM, which is the building block of SRAM based FPGA. This study investigates the radiation environment in NEqO specifically for the orbit of RazakSat satellite. Solar Event Particles (SEPs), Trapped Protons/Electrons (TP/TE) and Galactic Cosmic Rays (GCR) are the three main sources of radiation which are taken to consideration in this study. The fluxes spectra of these three types are simulated and SEU rates for 180nm 6T SRAM are predicted using SPENVIS models for NEqO orbit. The results show that GCR fluxes are the most dominant at NEqO which reached to 105 MeV whereas TE has 4MeV and TP has the second dominant fluxes with 400 MeV. However, if the magnetic shielding atmosphere is on, there are no solar particles fluxes and almost no SEU was detected. Results also illustrate that SEU rates at NEqO is 0.5 upset/bit day when there is no shielding to the device (6T SRAM) but this rates reduced by 1.6 × 10 6 times when the device shielded by 0.5 g/cm 2 of Aluminium. Comparisons of NEqO with polar orbit in terms of shielding effect and SEU rates are also presented in this study. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2016-12-29 Proceeding Paper PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/72899/4/72899_Radiation%20Characteristics%20and%20SEU.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/72899/2/72899_Radiation%20Characteristics%20and%20SEU_SCOPUS.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/72899/3/72899_Radiation%20Characteristics%20and%20SEU_WOS.pdf Benkara, Souaad and Mahmud, Manzar and Ab Rahim, Rosminazuin and Hasbullah, Nurul Fadzlin and Sabri, Sharizal Fadlie (2016) Radiation characteristics and SEU rates in NEqO environment using SPENVIS. In: 6th International Conference on Computer and Communication Engineering (ICCCE 2016), 25th-27th July 2016, Kuala Lumpur. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7808359 10.1109/ICCCE.2016.101
spellingShingle TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
TK5101 Telecommunication. Including telegraphy, radio, radar, television
Benkara, Souaad
Mahmud, Manzar
Ab Rahim, Rosminazuin
Hasbullah, Nurul Fadzlin
Sabri, Sharizal Fadlie
Radiation characteristics and SEU rates in NEqO environment using SPENVIS
title Radiation characteristics and SEU rates in NEqO environment using SPENVIS
title_full Radiation characteristics and SEU rates in NEqO environment using SPENVIS
title_fullStr Radiation characteristics and SEU rates in NEqO environment using SPENVIS
title_full_unstemmed Radiation characteristics and SEU rates in NEqO environment using SPENVIS
title_short Radiation characteristics and SEU rates in NEqO environment using SPENVIS
title_sort radiation characteristics and seu rates in neqo environment using spenvis
topic TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
TK5101 Telecommunication. Including telegraphy, radio, radar, television
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http://irep.iium.edu.my/72899/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/72899/4/72899_Radiation%20Characteristics%20and%20SEU.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/72899/2/72899_Radiation%20Characteristics%20and%20SEU_SCOPUS.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/72899/3/72899_Radiation%20Characteristics%20and%20SEU_WOS.pdf