DD1: A QDI, Radiation-Hard-by-Design, Near-Threshold 18uW/MIPS Microcontroller in 40nm Bulk CMOS

—This paper describes DD1, an asynchronous radiation-hard 8-bit AVR R microcontroller (MCU) implemented in TSMC 40LP, a low-power bulk 40nm CMOS process. Designed for extreme reliability, DD1 uses quasi-delay-insensitive (QDI) asynchronous logic and contains full-custom radiationhard memories and logic cells. The chip was found fully functional on first silicon over a range of operating voltages from

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2015
• Where: ASYNC
• Authors: Sean Keller, Alain J. Martin, Chris Moore
• Keywords: ASYNC 2015, Hardware