The Microelectronics Reliability & Qualification Workshop (MRQW) provided a forum for open discussion of issues for microelectronics targeted for use in space systems. The 2020 meeting consisted of 3 days with 60 speakers in multiple technical sessions.

Invited speakers covered the latest technology and work in progress in different areas of microelectronics device reliability and qualification methodologies, including:

•  advanced technologies reliability issues

•  advanced space FPGAs and memories

•  RF, analog, and mixed-signal device and design issues

•  space radiation effects

•  reliability for extreme environments

•  advanced packaging issues

•  failure analysis

•  GaN reliability and radiation effects

•  emerging technologies

•  alternate grade parts

•  trust and verification science

Highlights from 2020 MRQW included a session on the ongoing work of the High Reliability Electronics Virtual program.

Current and past MRQW proceedings are available on the event website:
https://aerospace.org/MRQW

For more information, contact
Adam Bushmaker, 310.336.7513,
adam.w.bushmaker@aero.org.

Keynote speaker, Dr. John Cressler (L), Schlumberger Chair Professor from Georgia Tech, presented the first practical bandgap-engineered device to be successfully implemented in silicon. Keynote speaker, Dr. David Miller (R), Chief Technology Officer for The Aerospace Corporation, described three micro-gravity technology research facilities to mature dynamics and control technology.