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Single Event Upsets and Hot Pixels in digital imagers

2015 IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI and Nanotechnology Systems (DFTS), 2015
From extensive study of digital imager defects, we found that permanent “Hot Pixels” are the main long term digital camera defects, and are caused by high energy cosmic ray particles. Clearly, as in other microelectronic integrated circuits, most of the particles do not induce permanent damage but instead, inject a short term charge that may cause a ...
Glenn H. Chapman, Rahul Thomas, Rohan Thomas, Klinsmann J. Coelho Silva Meneses, Tommy Q. Yang, Israel Koren, Zahava Koren   +6 more
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A Built-in Single Event Upsets Detector for Sequential Cells

Journal of Electronic Testing, 2015
A built-in single event upsets (SEUs) detector is presented in this paper. This detector utilizes charge sharing to detect an SEU in a sequential cell, and the detection process is analyzed through Accuro simulations in a 65 nm technology. The normal operation of this detector would not induce obvious performance degradation of the target circuit ...
Yuanqing Li, Haibin Wang, Lixiang Li 0001, Li Chen 0001, Rui Liu 0011, Mo Chen 0008   +5 more
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On-line characterization and reconfiguration for single event upset variations

2009 15th IEEE International On-Line Testing Symposium, 2009
The amount of physical variation among electronic components on a die is increasing rapidly. There is a need for a better understanding of variations in transient fault susceptibility, and for methods of on-line adaptation to such variations. We address three key research questions in this area.
Kenneth M. Zick, John P. Hayes
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Analysis of single-event upsets in a Microsemi ProAsic3E FPGA

2017 18th IEEE Latin American Test Symposium (LATS), 2017
The desirable use of Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) in aerospace & defense field has become a general consensus among IC and embedded system designers. Radiation-hardened (rad-hard) electronics used in this domain is regulated under severe and complex political and commercial treaties.
Paulo Ricardo Cechelero Villa, Roger C. Goerl, Fabian Vargas 0001, Leticia B. Poehls, Nilberto H. Medina, Nemitala Added, Vitor A. P. de Aguiar, Eduardo L. A. Macchione, Fernando Aguirre, Marcilei Aparecida Guazzelli da Silveira, Eduardo Augusto Bezerra   +10 more
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Accurate Analysis of Single Event Upsets in a Pipelined Microprocessor

Journal of Electronic Testing, 2003
Modern processors embed features such as pipelined execution units and cache memories that can not be directly controlled by programmers through the processor instruction set. As a result, software-based fault injection approaches are even less suitable for assessing the effects of SEUs in modern processors, since they are not able to evaluate the ...
REBAUDENGO, Maurizio, SONZA REORDA, Matteo, VIOLANTE, MASSIMO   +2 more
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Single Event Upset Error Rates

1997
This chapter together with Chapter 8 provides the major share of the discussion on the practical aspects of single event upset (SEU). This includes formulas for computing SEU in various particle environments. Section 5.2 discusses SEU calculations for heavy-ion cosmic rays at geosynchronous altitudes and Section 5.3 for Van Allen belt protons.
George C. Messenger, Milton S. Ash
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Single event upset at ground level

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 1996
Ground level upsets have been observed in computer systems containing large amounts of random access memory (RAM). Atmospheric neutrons are most likely the major cause of the upsets based on measured data using the Weapons Neutron Research (WNR) neutron beam.
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Single Event Upset Hardening of Interconnects

2016
With advances in technology scaling, circuits are increasingly more sensitive to transients caused by Single Event particles. Hardening techniques for CMOS combinational logic have been developed to address the problems associated with Single Event Transients , but in these designs, SET coupling effects have been ignored.
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Observation of single event upsets in analog microcircuits

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 1993
Selected analog devices were tested for heavy-ion-induced single event upset (SEU). The results of these tests are presented, likely upset mechanisms are discussed, and standards for the characterization of analog upsets are suggested. The OP-15 operational amplifier, which was found to be susceptible to SEU in the laboratory, has also experienced ...
R. Koga, S.D. Pinkerton, S.C. Moss, D.C. Mayer, S. LaLumondiere, S.J. Hansel, K.B. Crawford, W.R. Crain   +7 more
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Investigation for Single-Event Upset in MSI Devices

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 1981
This paper describes the results of the first known test for cosmic-ray effects exclusively directed towards several MSI logic families containing flip-flops, since Binder et al postulated the explanation for anomalous bit flips in 1975. The test was performed as a result of a joint effort between the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and MIT Lincoln ...
J. P. Woods, D. K. Nichols, W. E. Price
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