January 10, 2013
1886VE10 : Weekend die-shot
1886ВЕ10 is a rad-hard 8-bit microcontroller (50Mhz), designed by Milandr and manufactured at Mikron (Zelenograd, Russia).Technology : bulk Si, 180nm with aluminum metalization. Radiation hardening is achieved by using edgeless-transistors and 8T SRAM cells.
Die size 5000x3750 µm.
![](https://s.zeptobars.com/1886VE10.jpg)
After metalization etch:
![](https://s.zeptobars.com/1886VE10-Si.jpg)
Not much to see using optical microscope:
![](https://s.zeptobars.com/1886VE10-optical.jpg)
![](https://s.zeptobars.com/1886VE10-SEM.jpg)
Bright cylinders are tungsten via's left after etching metalization and ILD:
![](https://s.zeptobars.com/edx.png)