Rad-Hard Reconfigurable Level Shifters

With the rapid move away from the long held industry standard of 5 Volt level logic, it has become increasingly more difficult to manufacture, support, maintain and interface to legacy hardware. Most affected are industries with very long life cycles such as the military, power generation and telecommunications. It affects industries where regulatory requirements make it difficult to make hardware changes without re-qualification such as the aircraft and medical industries. It also means that many devices for military and space applications with established reliability and behavior are either no longer available or have become difficult to interface to with more current technology. The primary objective of Phase I is to create in silicon, a breadboard design that while not radiation hardened, or necessarily built in the optimum process, will demonstrate all the key functional and performance objectives. This will provide proof of concept and provide a roadmap to Phase II for fabricating a radiation hardened version in an optimal HBD COTS wafer fabrication process.