Low power SEU immune CMOS memory circuits

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 1992, Pages 1679-1684

  Norley Liu, M ^a   Whitaker, Sterling ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

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EID: 0002901176     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.211353     Document Type: Article

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