RAD-PROM is a project financed by the Italian Space Agency (ASI), under the National Programme for industrial research in space sector (“Nuove Idee per la Componentistica  Spaziale del futuro”).

RAD-PROM is a 24 months project, managed and coordinated by RedCat Devices (Milan, Italy), a fabless semiconductor company specialized in the design, development and manufacture of radiation-hardened electronics for the aerospace and nuclear science industry.

The aim of the project is the production of an innovative Anti-fuse non volatile memory for space application. The memory will be ionizing radiation resilient, using currently available in the market CMOS process.

RAD-PROM foresees the planning, design and integration of preliminary evaluation tests patterns followed by the realization of OTP (One Time Programmable) devices having the advantage to be small (64kbit) and with high flexibility (embedded memories). Both tests patterns and prototypes will be characterized electrically and under radiation. Core feature of the Anti-fuse RAD-PROM technology is the portability from a manufacturing process to another, for the aim of being independent of the ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations) export regulations and also of silicon foundries, used now as a pure service.

The goal of RAD-PROM is to create a proprietary Anti-fuse memory that could be marketed by RedCat Devices in Europe and countries such as India, China, Russian Federation and South America. This ionizing radiation resilient memory will be useful both for integrated application, i.e. through Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC) specifically created for calculus application, and for independent applications, e.g. One Time Programmable.