Radiation Testing and Characterization of the TPS50601A-SP Radiation Hardened Buck Converter

Single Events Effect (SEE) and Total Ionizing Dose (TID) characterization results for the new TPS50601A-SP, 6 A, DC-DC converter from Texas Instruments are presented. The TPS50601A-SP is Radiation Hardness Assured (RHA) up to a TID=100 krad (Si) for HDR and LDR and SEL-SEB-SEGR free up to LET
_EFF
=75 MeV-cm
²
/mg. SET's were characterized up to LET
_EFF
=65 MeV-cm
²
/mg.