SITAEL Microelectronics for space: Past, Present and Future Developments

Giovanni Tuccio Sales and Marketing Manager

COMPANY OVERVIEW

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A worldwide leading Transportation and Aerospace Group

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SYNERGIC HIGH-TECH COMPANIES WITH 1000+ HIGHLY SKILLED EMPLOYEES

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Space

SITAEL Overview

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Largest Italian and privately owned Company operating in the Space Sector.

More than 300 high qualified employees and state of the art facilities

Extensive heritage in all Design, Development, Production and Qualification processes for Small Satellites, Advanced Electric and Chemical Propulsion Systems, Earth Observation and Science Payloads, Platform and Payload Avionics from equipment down to complex component level.

Leading contractors and preferred partners for many stakeholders in several international space projects.

International Plants

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Pisa, ITALY

Mola di Bari, ITALY

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Celebrating 20 years working for Space Missions

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SPACE MICROELECTRONICS

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Capabilities

Front-end and ADC for sensors and actuators

Serial buses controllers and transceivers

Discrete commands management MCU/DSP Encoding/Decoding

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For more than 20 years, SITAEL Microelectronics Design Center (formerly Aurelia Microelettronica) has been pioneering radiation hardening techniques for the design of Integrated Circuits suitable for space environment. SITAEL provides complete solutions, including screening and qualification service according to ESA and NASA standards.

Main Completed ASIC Developments for Space Applications

16 channels High Power Command ASIC • Customer: Thales Alenia Space Italia • Technology: XFAB 0.6 um BiCMOS HV SOI • Mission: Sentinel 1, Iridium Next, Cosom Skymed, CERES

Sensor Front-End ASIC for Curiosity • Customer: AIRBUS D&S (EADS Astrium Crisa) • Technology: XFAB 1.0 µm High Voltage latch-up free SOI • Mission: NASA Rover Curiosity

MIL-STD-1553B monolithic Transceiver • Customer: AIRBUS D&S (EADS Astrium Velizy) • Technology: XFAB 1.0 µm High Voltage latch-up free SOI • AIRBUS D&S Missions

CANbus Controller (Atmel p/n: AT7908E) • Customer: RSC Energia / Atmel • Technology: ATMEL MG2RTP: Rad-Hard Sea of Gate 0.5 mm • ATMEL Standard ASIC

Sensor Signal Processor • Customer: SELEX ES • Technology: DMILL SOI 0.8 µm

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ASI cofunded Technology Developments in early 2000s

CANTRAN • Technology: AMS 0.8 µm CXZ high voltage • Function: 5V CAN transceiver for Space Applications

Am-CAN • Technology: Aeroflex UT350 • Fuction: 80C51 Microcontroller with internal RAM and SFR,

Interrupt Controller, UART Controller, LIN Controller, 3PWMs/Timers, General Purpose I/Os, In Circuit Emulator and CAN Controller 2.0B with 16 Mboxes (all in/out configurable).

SELP & CO-SELP • Technology: DMILL BiCMOS 0.8um 5V rad hard • Function: Single Event Latch-up protector ASIC (SELP) and

its Controller (COSELP)

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Ongoing ASIC Developments for Space Applications

Pixel Processor ASIC for MTG Lightning Imager • Customer. SELEX ES • Technology: ATMEL ATMX150RHA • Mission: Meteosat Third Generation

Receiver Low Power Analog Decoder • Customer. ESA • Technology: X-FAB 0.18µm CMOS • Application: Receiver chain based on Forward Error

Correction (FEC) algorithm, for Planetary Communications and Intersatellite Links

Assessment and Characterization of

Mixed Signal Technology • Customer: ESA • Technology: XFAB 0.18um CMOS HV • Assessment, characterization and selection of an

European mixed signal technology for the development of ASICs for space applications.

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Main Completed ASIC Developments for other Hi-rel Applications

128-ch Readout for γ-ray detectors (CZT) • Customer: Spectrum Dynamics Ltd • Technology: VIS 0.35μm • Application: Nuclear Medicine, Homeland Security

64-ch Readout for x-ray Detectors • Customer: INFN Trieste • Technolgy: AMS 0.8μm • Application: Nuclear Medicine

Multiparameter Biomedical Frontend (12-l ECG, T, P) • Internal Development • Technology: AMS 0.8μm • Application: Electromedical Portable Devices

Digital Ctrl & Biasing for GaAs MMIC • Customer: Elettronica S.p.A. • Technology: X-FAB 0.35 μm HV • Application: Avionic RF components

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Digital IP Cores

SITAEL microelectronics library includes a certain number of digital IPs for rad-hard FPGAs, available to customers for use on their products and systems, under specific license agreements.

Deliverables: o Source Code (encrypted VHDL or synthesized VHDL) o Simulation/synthesis/compilation scripts o Testbench o Documentation (User Manual/Datasheet)

SITAEL is able to provide an extensive maintenance and support

service to its customers, in order to: o Solve eventual problem in the IP core VHDL or any other

software distributed with the IP core database found during the IP core test/usage activities

o Provide support to customers in the configuration and synthesis of the IP Core in the specific Application.

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Main IP Cores

V8uC Microcontroller for low-end space applications based on SPARC V8 architecture, powerful replacement for ATMEL 80C52 microcontroller (now in phase-out)

CANopen CANopen Controller for ESA ExoMars Mission. Complete CAN node capable to handle both low level communication aspects and the higher level Object dictionary memory management aspects

IMMIPC Improved Memory Module IP Core to mitigate the radiation effects caused by heavy ions, neutrons and protons impact on a COTS based mass memory modules, making use of digital techniques

DSPACE High performance, scalable, multi-purpose DSP for space application up to 1 GFLOPS, conceived to be used both as stand-alone signal processor into embedded systems and as building component for computational capability increasing.

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Dev Kits

Some other Digital IP Cores

PCI Master/Slave PCI IP core with DMA access

PCI light Slave access on one side, memory-like access on the other side

AMBA to PCI Bridge joining a PCI bus with an AMBA AHB bus.

I2C Fully supports 8-bit, bi-directional, serial data transfers. Master/Slave Modes. True multi-master bus operation capability including collision detection and arbitration to prevent data corruption.

Floating Point Unit IEEE 754 single precision floating point including Sum, Compare, Multiply, Divide, Floating Point to/from Integer conversion, unary operators negation and absolute value.

Am-CAN 80C51 Microcontroller with internal RAM and SFR, Interrupt Controller, UART Controller, LIN Controller, 3PWMs/Timers, General Purpose I/Os, In Circuit Emulator and CAN Controller 2.0B with 16 Mboxes (all in/out configurable).

UART/LIN Able to transmit and receive (in full-duplex mode) both using UART or LIN protocol. LIN master or slave. TX/RX clocks generation using sytem clock or external clock.

RMAP Receiver Designed to operate with different Space Wire codecs into a larger SpW RMAP module.

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FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS

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Evaluation of Lfoundry LF15A CMOS process for Space Applications

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Project Objectives: Define the requirements for LFoundry 150nm CMOS process evaluation.

Perform an intrinsic reliability assessment of the available basic devices and

specific radiation-hardened structures.

Perform an ESCC comprehensive reliability and radiation characterization..

Analyze the reliability and radiation test results and extract the electrical basic analogue device models.

Paving the way to a 100% Italian supply chain for mixed-signal ASICs from design to test.

Libraries and IP Cores

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Digital Libraries Design • Standard Cells • I/O Pads

Mixed-Signal IP Cores Implementation

• ADC • DAC • Serial Links Physical Layers • PLL • LDO • Oscillators • Others ….

New ASIC Developments for Small Satellites/Constellations

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Optical/Telecom Payloads • Front-end ASIC • DSP

Compact PDHU / Modular RTU • Transducer Interface ASIC • PowerLink Controller/Terminal ASIC • CAN Transceiver

Power Conditioning • ASIC for compact and configurable isolated DC/DC converter

On Board memories • Flash Memory Controller

Contacts

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Giovanni Tuccio Sales and Marketing Manager

giovanni.tuccio@sitael.com

SITAEL S.p.A. Via Livornese, 1019

56122 San Piero a Grado (PI) – ITALY Tel: +39 080 5321796

Fax: +39 050 9910249 www.sitael.com