Testing and Irradiation of Electronics

Introductory Notes

• Effects of Radiation on Electronics
• Total Ionizing Dose Effects
• Single Event Effects
• Dose Enhancement
• Charge Particle Equilibrium
• Effect of TID on the SCAC

• NIM Paper: Ionizing radiation effects in XC4036X field programmable gate arrays

Tests Performed by the ATLAS Alberta Group

Some Photos

• SCAC production chips
• SCAC testing

Deep Submicron Tests

• Testing and Radiation Qualification of the SCA Controller Engineering Prototype (html version)
• Tests of the Engineering Run SCA Controller (html version)
• Angular Effects
• Thermal Effects in the SCAC
• Stress Tests
• Neutron Test
• Radiation Qualification of the SCA Controller Preselection
• Tests of the Final Prototype SCA Controller
• Tests of the First Prototype SCA Controller

DMILL Tests

FPGA Tests

• Total Ionizing Dose Effects in a SRAM-Based FPGA
• Total Ionizing Dose Effects in a Xilinx FPGA

SCA Tests

• The Effects of Radiation and Temperature on a Switched Capacitor Array
• Tests of a SCA for the ATLAS Calorimter P.Kayal, M.Sc. Thesis (1996)

Our Cobalt-60 Source Facility

• Radiation Lab Monitoring Program
• Fricke Dosimeter Solution
• Operation of the UV-Spectrometer

Our X-Ray Accelerator Facility

• X-ray Dosimetry of the Switched-Capacitor Array Controller (html version)
• Ionisation Chamber Usage Guide
• Irradiation Test Plan
• X-ray Accelerator Facility - description
• Radiation Test Equipment Configuration

Interesting Links

• Index of DSCC Mil Specs & Drawings