Predicting the Single-Event Error Rate of a Radiation Hardened by Design Microprocessor

Manuel Cabanas-Holmen, Ethan H. Cannon, Tony Amort, Jon Ballast, Roger Brees, Steve Fischer, A.J. KleinOsowski, Barry Meaker, Terry Swann, J.L. Wert

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science · 2011 · 17 citations · 15 references

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Abstract

We describe the approach used to calculate and verify on-orbit upset rates of radiation hardened microprocessors. System designers use these error rates to choose between microprocessors and add appropriate system-level recovery and redundancy.

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