1. Slide : 1 07-09-2010AMICSA 2010 summary

2. Slide : 2 07-09-2010AMICSA 2010 AMICSA in numbers 2006 GREECE 2008 PORTUGAL 2010 NETHERLANDS participants 484969 companies 263642 countries 11 GR, F, UK, NE, D, IT, BE, USA, CH, S, AT 15 GR, F, UK, NE, D, IT, BE, USA, CH, S, AT, FI, P, NO, E 12 F, UK, NE, D, IT, BE, USA, CH, S, NO, E, ISR presentations 171920 + posters

3. Slide : 3 07-09-2010AMICSA 2010 AMICSA’06 - Applications CMOS Image sensors readout Video processing chain ADC/DAC/HSSL high speed low power telecom processors (mobile & broadband) CAN 1553 transceivers TM acquisition & data handling IO control Magnetometer front end Slow sampling high resolution Power converters LASER interferometer AOCS Environmental monitoring X,Gamma ray spectroscopy GNSS receivers Front End

4. Slide : 4 07-09-2010AMICSA 2010 AMICSA’08 - Applications CMOS Image sensors readout Video processing chain ADC/DAC/HSSL high speed low power telecom processors (mobile & broadband) CAN 1553 transceivers TM acquisition & data handling IO control Magnetometer front end Slow sampling high resolution Power converters LASER interferometer AOCS Environmental (T, wind, humidity) monitoring X,Gamma ray spectroscopy readout GNSS receivers Front End

5. Slide : 5 07-09-2010AMICSA 2010 AMICSA’10 - Applications CMOS Image sensors & CCD readout Video processing chain ADC/DAC/HSSL high speed low power telecom processors (mobile & broadband) & direct down/up conversion from/to RF or IF CAN 1553 transceivers TM acquisition & data handling IO control Magnetometer front end Slow sampling high resolution Power converters LASER interferometer AOCS Environmental (T, wind, humidity) monitoring X,Gamma ray spectroscopy readout GNSS receivers Front End Rad hard libs and DLLs for SoCs Low speed regulated biasing low speed high resolution DAC for control and calibration High Power commands management ISM radar receivers Front ends Local oscillator MMIC for Ka- band down conversion in satcom

6. Slide : 6 07-09-2010AMICSA 2010 AMICSA – Technology (I/II) PROCESSES CMOS Bipolar, HBT BiCMOS Si / SiGe / SiGeC bulk / SOI 1.0, 0.5, 0.35, 0.25, 0.18, 0.13 µm; 90, 65nm FOUNDRIES AMS (AT) ON Semi (B) STMicroelectronics (F) IHP (D) Infineon (D) XFab (UK,D) UMC (Taiwan) DARE (Belgium) TSMC (Taiwan) TOWER (Israel) Texas Instruments (D) National Semiconductors (UK)

7. Slide : 7 07-09-2010AMICSA 2010 AMS Foundries used for space mixed-signal ASICs IHP ON MHS STM XFab Infineon TI Tower Israel UMC TSMC Taiwan NS LFoundry

8. Slide : 8 07-09-2010AMICSA 2010 AMICSA – Technology (II/II) EDA tools, HDL & DK Tanner Cadence Calibre (Mentor) Pspice / Hspice ADMS (Mentor) VHDL-AMS / Verilog-A proprietary simulators, optimizers: Astrium (UK), S3 (P) ANSYS (for hot spots) MOMENTUM (TL simulation) DARE libs (IMEC, B + UMC, Taiwan) RadSafe libs (Ramon + Tower, Israel) CML full-diff libs (ADSANTEC, USA + Jazz/Tower) MPW programmes Europractice CMP MOSIS vendor specific… Multi-Layer Mask

9. Slide : 9 07-09-2010AMICSA 2010 AMICSA – Radiation effects Rad Threats (TID, SEE) leakage currents Vth shifts parasitic transistors/ latch up gate rupture data corruption (bit flips) transient pulses Mitigation Techniques (technology and function dependent) enclosed/bigger transistors, H-shape, pseudo-enclosed guardband rings / STI / LOCOS avoid diffusion resistors in favour of oxide R epi layer / hetero-epi buried-layers, deep-N-well (NISO) low gain artificially provoked parasitic transistors DRC isolation rules + waving to allow ELT SOI thinner field oxide, thicker gate oxide hardened libraries (re-size, cell-topology) ADC offset auto-zeroing (analog and digital correction) architecture hardening (open vs closed loop) redundancy and voting/comparing self-powering functions (reducing SEL options) cyclic reset to prevent SEE accumulation SET glitch filtering Epitaxial N-pockets Minimize use of NMOS transistors

10. Slide : 10 07-09-2010AMICSA 2010 AMICSA – Future steps Is the scope right? Application domains, Foundries, processes Tools, ATH, Qualification? Is the size right? #days, length of presentations, number of contributors? More international?? AMICSA 2012 venue and date TBD

11. Slide : 11 07-09-2010AMICSA 2010 AMICSA – THANKS ! all presenters and participants sponsors E2V, National Semiconductor organizers Boris Glass (ESTEC Microelectronics), organising committee, chairmen and ESA Conference Bureau