2010 ESA Microelectronics Presentation Days Dominique de...

2010 ESA Microelectronics Presentation Days

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Dominique de Saint Roman

Atmel ASIC BUAerospace Product Line

Marketing and Business Development Manager

2010 ESA Microelectronics Presentation Days

ATC18RHA MULTI-PROJECT WAFER

ESA Contract: 17767/03/NL/FM

MPD ESA March 30th, 2010

Prepared by Valérie BRIOT

April 10 3

MPD2010 - ATC18RHA MULTI-PROJECT WAFER

AGENDA

� MPW OBJECTIVES

� GENERAL INFO

� SPECIFIC MILESTONES

� SMPW in perspective

� SMPW_E1

� SMPW_E2

� SMPW_E3

� SMPW_E4

� CONCLUSIONS

April 10 4


MPW OBJECTIVES

� For the ATC18RHA ASIC series

� A service for ANY European Space Customer

� Aims at lowering the non recurring manufacturing costs of ASIC development by amortizing them (reticules and silicon) through several ASIC designs

� Further more, the same set of reticules can be used for Prototypes and Flight Models

April 10 5


GENERAL INFO (1/2)

� There are no design constraints specific to SMPW

� ATC18RHA design kit applies without restrictions

� Each design is developed independently of the others

� But new synchronization milestones are created

� SMPW is a Space foundry service

� The SMPW is limited to reticules and wafers manufacturing

� 1 reticules set for all the designs embarked

� All embarked designs are manufactured on each wafer

� At fab out, wafers lot is split in sub-lots, one for each design

� ESA absorbs the masks and silicon run costs for ESA projects only

April 10 6


GENERAL INFO (2/2)

� The SMPW runs are launched at fix dates made public in advance to the space community

� Each run includes

- The reticules manufacturing

- 1 Si lot with priority for prototyping

� Complementary lots for Flight Models can be launched

- With the same reticules

- Without date limitation

� Specific milestones have been added in the ATC18RHA design flow

April 10 7


SPECIFIC MILESTONES (1/4)

� RTE: Request To Embark

� Complementarily to the technical information provided for the 1st level feasibility study

� The customer must provide Atmel with the necessary information for the quotation based on the use of the SMPW

- The space project name

- The targeted SMPW run number

� If eligible to an ESA reserved SMPW run, the customer provides the filled in RTE document and Atmel relays it to ESA for approval

Preliminary Quote

1st level feasibility

RFQ

ELAP

RTE

April 10 8



� ELAP: ESA ELigibility APproval

� ESA accepts to embark the design on an ESA identified run #

� A written agreement is issued by ESA to confirm the customer ASIC eligibility

� As such, ESA commits that the customer ASIC will be on the identified run if the “Logic Review Closing Date” is met

Preliminary Quote

1er level feasibility

RFQ

ELAP

RTE

April 10 9



� LRCD: Logic Review Closing Date

� A fixed date, published in advance ([email protected])

� All the Logic Reviews have to be completed by then

� The “LR Closing Date” is the latest date for confirming

- The SMPW run embarking approval (ESA)

- The commitment to embark on the agreed planning (Customer + Atmel)

� The reticule organization is frozen

� The ESA cancellation charges apply from then onwards (on top of the standard Atmel ones)

LRCD

Order Design n

Place & Route

Post layout simulations

DR

DRCD

4 m

on

ths

DR

Place & Route


Logic Design

LR LR

Logic design

Order Design 1

April 10 10



� DRCD: Design Review Closing Date

� A fixed date, published in advance

� All the Design Reviews have to be completed by then

� It is the start of the reticule and wafers manufacturing

� In general, there are 4 months between the “LR Closing Date”

and the “DR Closing Date”

DRCD

LRCD

Order Design n

Place & Route


DR

4

mo

nth

s

DR

Place & Route


Logic Design

LR LR

Logic Design

Order Design 1

April 10 11


SMPW IN PERSPECTIVE

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VR E1 E2 E3 E4

TodayESA Contract Kick-off

� 500K€ SMPW for the management and technical set-up + the verification through a Validation Run

� 1.5M€ for 4 SMPW runs

ESA Contract ends

April 10 12


SMPW VALIDATION RUN

� DESCRIPTION (RETICULE)

� 2 CUSTOMERS

� 2 ASIC’s + ATC18RHA SEC & TCV

- 1 ATC18RHA_504 for ESA R & D

- 1 ATC18RHA_404 for R & D

� DRCD was September 2004

� Validation of the “SMPW reticule specification”

� Validation of the “SMPW technical and management procedure”

April 10 13


SMPW_E1


� 1 CUSTOMER

� 2 ASIC’s + ATC18RHA SEC & TCV

- 1 ATC18RHA_504 for R&D space project

- 1 ATC18RHA_324 for Flight Models production

� The DRCD was driven by the DR of the most complex ASIC: December 2007

� From the design to the prototypes delivery: there was no identified issues linked to the SMPW procedures

� The SMPW management was easier due to the fact that only one customer was involved

April 10 14


SMPW_E2


� 3 CUSTOMERS

� 3 ASIC’s

- 1 ATC18RHA_504

- 1 ATC18RHA_404

- 1 ATC18RHA_324

� DRCD: December 2008

� From design to prototypes delivery: no issues linked to SMPW procedures

� ‘1st at DR, 1st at probe’ rule not relevant when an ‘easier’ASIC than complex ones is on the same reticule

April 10 15


SMPW_E3


� 2 CUSTOMERS

� 3 ASIC’s

- 1 ATC18RHA_504

- 2 ATC18RHA_404

� DRCD: March 2010

April 10 16


SMPW_E4

� DESCRIPTION

� 3 CUSTOMERS IDENTIFIED

� 3 ASIC’s IDENTIFIED

- 2 ATC18RHA_504

- 1 ATC18RHA_324

� Still room for an ATC18RHA_404 (or smaller) based design

� LRCD October 2010

� DRCD February 2011

April 10 17


CONCLUSIONS (1)

� ESA SMPW Constraints

� Cycle times

� Fixed dates

� Risk of cancellation if not enough candidates (2 min)

� Confidentiality

� ESA SMPW Advantages

� Access to advanced technology at lower cost

� Prototyping for R & D without FM

� Commitment to Space requirements (Radiation Hardened and High Reliability)

� Prototypes and Flight Models delivery

April 10 18


CONCLUSIONS (2)

� Once the ESA runs have been used Atmel will keep offering an SMPW service based on the following business conditions

� Either for one customer or multiple customers

� No predefined/committed run launch date until a minimum of 2 ASICs are identified

� The mask and silicon cost will be charged to the users of an MPW run (it was paid by ESA until now)

� The MPW logistic and milestones will remain the same

� Once an MPW run will be open (2 ASIC), R & D ASIC can consider to embark

April 10 19


THANKS TO …

� Agustin Fernandez-Leon, ESA

� Valérie Briot, Atmel

April 10 20


VALIDATION RUN RETICULE

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April 10 21


SMPW_E1 RETICULE

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April 10 22


SMPW_E2 RETICULE

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April 10 23


SMPW_E3 RETICULE

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