SETA-RAY: A New IDE tool for Predicting, Analyzing and Mitigating Radiation-induced Soft Errors on FPGAs

One of the main concern for FPGA adopted in mission critical application such as space and avionic fields is radiationinduced soft errors. Therefore, we propose an IDE including two software tools compatible with commercial EDA tools. Rad-Ray as the first and only developed tool capable to predict the source of the SET phenomena by taking in to account the features of the radiation environment such as the type, LET and interaction angle of the particles, the material and physical layout of the device exposed to the radiation. The predicted source SET pulse in provided to the SETA tool as the second developed tool integrated with the commercial FPGA design tool for evaluating the sensitivity of the industrial circuit implemented on Flash-based FPGA and mitigate the original netlist based on the performed analysis. This IDE is supported by ESA and Thales Alenia Space. It has been applied to the EUCLID space mission project that will be launched in 2021.