Research, Expertise & Resources
Core Labs
Reliable Electronics and Systems (RES) Lab
PI: Daniel LovelessRadiation-hardend elctronics from devices to the circuit level
- Process modeling with radiation effects
- Test chip design
- Radiation-aware compact modeling
- Radiation-hardened-by-design systems design & training
- Radiation testing & training
- Software tool development & automation: commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) tools and in-house-developed software
- Applied machine learning and artificial intelligence
- Basic and applied research grants; SBIR/STTR; and CRADA agreements (Cooperative Research and Development Agreement)
Systems Assurance and Integrity Lab (SAIL-IN)
PI: Andrew LukefahrHardware systems security, and Field-Programable Gate Array (FPGA) designs for security.
- Discovering security vulnerabilities, especially in commercial FPGAs
- Design of active defense mechanisms against known security vulnerabilities within commercial FPGAs
- Red-Team analysis of hardware security mechanisms
- Designed FPGAs architectures for high radiation environments, with and without security features.
Radiation Testing
On-Site
- 14 MeV Low-Energy-Neutron-Source (LENS)
Off-Site
- ARACOR 10 keV X-ray
- Brookhaven National Laboratory Tandem Van de Graaff
- Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory 88” Cyclotron
- Michigan State University Facility for Rare Isotopes Beam (FRIB)
- NASA Space Radiation Laboratory (NSRL) at Brookhaven
- Tri-University Meson Factory (TRIUMF)
- NAVSEA-Crane suite of radiation sources and failure analysis (FA) laboratory
Major Equipment
- Keysight EXR Real-Time Oscilloscope (20 GS/s)
- Tektronix MSO Real-Time Oscilloscope (16 GS/s)
- Keysight Power Supplies
- Keithley 2636B Source-Measure-Units
- Keysight B1500 Parameter Analyzer
- Form Factor PAC200 Cryogenic Wafer Probe Station