Labs

Core Labs

Reliable Electronics and Systems (RES) Lab

PI: Daniel Loveless
Radiation-hardened electronics 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 Lukefahr
Hardware 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.

Harsh-Environemnt Reliability of Microelectronics and Emerging Semiconductors (HERMES)

Developing testing and hardening techniques by combining experiments and multi-scale modeling.

• Pulsed-laser single-event effects (SEE) testing and correlation with heavy-ion response
• AI/ML-driven analysis of reliability and radiation-induced failure mechanisms
• TCAD and physics-based simulations for harsh environment reliability
• Integrated photonics for robust space communication and sensing