Patent ID: 8577662

Claim:
A method for characterising the sensitivity to energy interactions of an electronic component, comprising: the electronic component is put into operation, the electronic component thus put into operation is excited by excitations produced by a laser radiation, a malfunction of the electronic component Put into operation, corresponding to these excitations, is measured, a mapping is made of the sensitivity zones of the component in which these excitations have an effect, a program of simulation of stress applied by a particle prompting energy interactions is applied to the mapping of the sensitivity zones, this simulation program produces a large number of possible paths taken by the particles in the component and, in the case of a neutrons and protons, a large number of reactions extracted from a data base, this simulation program implements a charge collection model from these possible paths and from the mapping of the sensitivity of the component, this simulation program analyzes these charge collections and decides on the occurrence of errors related to these charge collections, the quality signal of the component is deduced from this analysis and from these decisions. a data base is used, in the case of the neutrons and the protons, providing information on products and probabilities of possible nuclear reactions, and the effect of the ionization on the working of the components is measured.