There have been a number of rad-hard SPARC chips from different vendors tthat have flown along the way, and I know Frontgrade/Gaisler currently sells a SPARC v8 version, which isn't that far behind the 'state of the art' as the e5500 based PPCs from BEA (at least as far as state of the art in space rated, rad-hard processors goes...it's a conservative market). Quite a few rad-hard ARMs out there farther down the performance curve.
replyFrontgrade also advertises a rad-hard RISC-V, as does Microchip (a PIC64 variant), that I know nothing about, but seems like an inevitable next step. Seems like you could grab some Xilinx rad-hard FPGA and bobs your uncle.
what scale of radiation do such hardened designs target?
replyExpanding a wee bit on what the other guy said, that's typically 20Gy *one Gray at a time*.
replyA whole body exposure of 5Gy would kill you, although it would happen over two weeks.
10kGy? Spectacularly fatal.
1 Megarad (10 Kilogray)
replyIn comparison radtherapy patients get 20 gray in 1-2 weeks so it's the 20/10000 = 0.02% of what these designs target
Wow, until you posted this I thought Moog was just a synthesizer company. And a bit of an odd one at that based on how I saw that synth presented.
replyCousins. One made synths the other flight controls.
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