Antikode and BATAN Microelectronics partner on radiation-tolerant RISC-V for instrumentation
A multi-year collaboration to harden the RV-32IM core for the radiation environments encountered in nuclear instrumentation, medical imaging, and high-altitude aerospace applications.
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Antikode Sub Ops and BATAN Microelectronics today announced a multi-year technical partnership to develop a radiation-tolerant variant of the Antikode RV-32IM core for use in nuclear instrumentation, medical imaging detectors, and high-altitude aerospace platforms operating in the Southeast Asian region.
The joint program will deliver a fault-tolerant micro-architecture with TMR (triple modular redundancy) on critical control state, ECC-protected register files and on-chip memories, and a watchdog-driven recovery sequence designed to ride through single-event upsets without losing application state. Target tape-out is on TSMC 28nm HPC+ in Q4 2026, with characterisation under proton and heavy-ion beams scheduled at BATAN test facilities in early 2027.
The collaboration also funds two PhD positions at Institut Teknologi Bandung focused on radiation-effect modelling for advanced-node CMOS, with the resulting models contributed to the open-source community.
Indonesia has the talent and the foundational research to build mission-critical silicon. What we have lacked is sustained industrial collaboration. This partnership changes that.
Initial deliveries of the rad-tolerant RV-32IM variant are scheduled for paying licensees in Q2 2027, with a public datasheet and characterisation report to follow once beam-test results are confirmed. Early-engagement customers are being selected now; medical imaging OEMs and instrumentation system houses interested in evaluation may contact our partnerships team.
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