Introduction

Fully Depleted Silicon On Insulator (FD-SOI) is an innovative technology used in semiconductor manufacturing.

The NXP SoCs used in the Apalis iMX8, Apalis iMX8X and the Colibri iMX8X are built with this technology.

Advantages

Compared to the bulk-silicon transistors, FD-SOI has several advantages:

• 28nm FD-SOI provides 10 to 100 times better immunity to soft-errors (SER) than its bulk counterpart.
• By dramatically reducing leakage, reverse back-biasing (RBB) provides good power performance at very low voltages and a wide range of temperatures.

These advantages make the Apalis iMX8, Apalis iMX8X and the Colibri iMX8X a very good choice in applications where high reliability and/or low power are a requirement.

Learn More (External Links)

For more information about FD-SOI see:

• Article by semwiki - Why is NXP Moving to FD-SOI?
• Article by Coventor - Everything You Need to Know about FDSOI Technology – Advantages, Disadvantages, and Applications of FDSOI
• Question on ResearchGate - What is FDSOI technology and what are its advantages?