Called the UT0.6mSRH. The new series is designed specifically for high reliability space applications that require high SEU immunity and over 1 Mega rad of total dose hardness.

The UT0.6mSRH is fabricated in a commercial 0.6u silicon gate CMOS process that utilizes a special process module run in AMI's commercial foundry.

This process enhances the total dose radiation hardness of the field and gate oxides while maintaining circuit density, reliability, and commercial silicon performance.

According to Peter Milliken, ASIC product line manager, "This product release represents an industry breakthrough. It is the first product that is fabricated in a commercial fab, that is SEL immune and is guaranteed to have a hardness of at least 1 Mega rads.

The introduction of radiation-hardened products from a commercial fab is significant because it allows commercial and military space products to take advantage of the rapid advances in commercial silicon technology."

"The UT0.6mSRH follows UTMC's successful UT0.6mCRH Commercial RadHard process," continued Milliken. "UTMC was the first to introduce a process guaranteed to 300K rads(Si) produced on a commercial fab.

"Customers have incorporated the UT0.6mCRH Commercial RadHard gate arrays into their products and UTMC has listened to their requests for a 1 Mega Rad product. This will save customers development time and reduce costs," he added.

UTMC's UT0.6mSRH gate array family features array sizes up to 600,000 usable gates and is ISO 9001 and QML Class Q and V compliant. The gate array family is radiation hardened to 1 Mega Rad and can meet SEU immunity to less than 1.0E-10 errors/bit-day. It features clock rates up to 215MHz and operating voltage of 5V and 3.3V.

The UT0.6uSRH family of gate arrays is supported by Mentor Graphics and Synopsys design platforms in VHDL and Verilog design languages on HP, NT and Sun workstations.

A robust cell library with over 170 options include SSI, MSI, and 54XX equivalent functions, as well as configurable RAM, MIL-STD-1553 functions, microcontrollers, and other macro/megafunctions.

UTMC is a supplier of semicustom and standard VLSI circuits and custom circuit card assemblies and is dedicated to the aerospace and defense marketplace.

UTMC has received Qualified Manufacturer List (QML) certification for Class T, Class Q and Class V and ISO 9002 Registration from Underwriters Laboratory. Additionally, UTMC has received a letter of compliance for ISO 9001 from the Defense Supply Center Columbus.