Ridgetop maintains a staff that is skilled in the evaluation of radiation on microelectronics and complex systems.
Examples include:
- Under contract from a large Prime Contractor, Ridgetop analyzed the rad effects of body tie impedance for a commercial 90nm CMOS process. Ridgetop acquired the Process Design Kit (PDK) and other information, then performed various TCAD simulations and prepared a complete vulnerability report for the customer.
- Another Prime Contractor needed an independent assessment as to the rad hardness of a component to be used in a space satellite. Specifically, the issue was to determine the life of a space-deployed camera, given a certain number of orbits, a defined LEO orbital path and expected radiation flux. Ridgetop performed the Independent Analysis and provided the report to the customer.
