Spirit Electronics has announced franchised distribution for Zero-Error Systems (ZES) to support ultra-high reliability semiconductors and ICs operating in challenging radiation environments. ZES’ proprietary solutions include radiation-hardened by design (RHBD) library cells; latchup detection and protection (LDAP) in commercial off-the- shelf (COTS) parts; and power management redundancy solutions as die, packaged ICs or licensed IP and design services.
Spirit’s CEO, Marti McCurdy, said: “ZES is providing critical mission assurance through an innovative approach. Spirit’s commercial space customers often turn to COTS for lower-cost and readily available ICs and semiconductors, but those components lack radiation resiliency. ZES is a low-cost method to integrate radiation protection and guarantee mission performance from low- Earth orbit all the way out to deep space.
“Radiation protection is your insurance policy for your space mission, and our space customers must decide what level of insurance they need for success. ZES allows us to customize that coverage by applying rad-hard protections to critical components or extending it to all COTS components.”
