Conditional soft-edge flip-flop for SET mitigation

Abstract

Single event transient (SET) pulses are a significant cause of soft errors in a circuit. To cope with SET pulses, we propose a new storage cell that is able to operate either as a hard-edge or soft-edge flip-flop depending on the appearance or not of a transition in a time window. The efficiency of the proposed design with respect to the reduction of soft-errors coming from SET pulses was shown with extensive simulations.