航天应用FPGA配置可靠性研究

航天应用系统必须保证每一单元的安全性及可靠性. 现场可编程门阵列(Field Programmable Gate Array, FPGA), 以其I/O管脚丰富、设计灵活等优势, 逐渐被广泛应用于航天领域. 其设计与工艺不断完善, 以适应太空中电子辐射等复杂的工作环境. 由于基于SRAM的FPGA芯片断电后程序丢失, 因此每次上电后都需要先从PROM等外部存储器中加载程序才能正常工作. 然而, 并不是每一个芯片的每一次加载配置都能成功完成, FPGA的上电配置结果将直接关系到卫星任务的成败. 研究发现, 诸如环境温度、信号完整性、供电电压、配置时钟速率等因素会影响FPGA的配置过程, 致使出现偶尔的配置失败, 这在航天应用中是绝对不允许的. 针对实际应用的Xilinx公司FPGA芯片, 为提高上电配置可靠性, 提出了一系列设计保障措施, 在FPGA航天应用领域具有一定的参考价值. 

Research on the Reliability of FPGA Configuration in Space-based Systems

Designers of space-based systems face unique challenges to insure each unit against failure.FPGA are used gradually in the aerospace field since it is invented with abundant I/O pins and flexible design margin.Many manufactures have been improving those space-qualified FPGA devices to adapt the aerospace high-radiation environments.FPGA devices based on SRAMs have to load configuration data from external PROMs on power-up before the logic is activated.However, not each batch or each device can be configured...