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4 unusual facts about Soft error


Bit flipping

Memory error, Soft error, an unintentional state switch from 0 to 1, or vice versa, of a bit stored to random access memory or other medium

Linear energy transfer

Rather, one measures their effect in terms of neutrons per cm2 per hour, see Soft error.

Soft error

Isaac Asimov received a letter congratulating him on an accidental prediction of alpha-particle RAM errors in a 1950s novel.

Boron has been used in BPSG, the insulator in the interconnection layers of integrated circuits, particularly in the lowest one.



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