A Low-Cost and Triple-Node-Upset Self-Recoverable Latch Design With Low Soft Error Rate

With the decrease in feature size of transistors, latches are more sensitive to single-event multiple node upset (MNU), including double node upset (DNU) and triple node upset (TNU). However, the reported TNU self-recoverable (TNUR) latches are facing problems with large areas and power consumption. Based on the polarity design, this article proposes a low-cost TNUR latch (LCTRL) with a low soft error rate (SER) in 28-nm CMOS technology. The proposed LCTRL mainly consists of four interlocked modules and a clock-gated inverter. Compared with the state-of-the-art TNUR latches, including LCTNURL, IHTRL, FATNU, and TRLW, the power consumption, D-Q delay, CLK-to-Q delay, area, and the power-delay-area product (PDAP) of the proposed LCTRL are reduced by 55.09%, 38.64%, 42.93%, 44.65%, and 83.50%, respectively. Due to the polarity design, the SER of the proposed LCTRL is the smallest among compared latches, which suggests that the proposed LCTRL is suitable for use in radiation environments.