Reliability of Scrubbing Recovery-Techniques for Memory Systems

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1990, Pages 114-122

  Saleh, Abdallah M ^a   Serrano, Juan J ^b   Patel, Janak H ^c  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

fault tolerant memory; Memory reliability; scrubbing mechanism; single event upset; transient error recovery

Indexed keywords

CODES, SYMBOLIC; COMPUTER SYSTEMS, DIGITAL--FAULT TOLERANT CAPABILITY; PROBABILITY;

DETERMINISTIC SCRUBBING; EXPONENTIALLY DISTRIBUTED ARRIVAL TIMES; FAULT-TOLERANT MEMORY SYSTEMS; MARKOV MODELS; SCRUBBING RECOVERY; SEC-DED CODES;

DATA STORAGE, DIGITAL;

EID: 0025419560     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: 15581721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/24.52622     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. F. J. Aichelman, Jr., “Fault-tolerant design techniques for semiconductor memory applications”, IBM J. Research and Development, vol 28, 1984 Mar, pp 177–183.
2. D. B. Sarrazin, M. Malek, “Fault-tolerant semiconductor memories”, IEEE Computer, vol 17, 1984 Aug, pp 49–56.
3. J. C. Pickel, J. T. Blandford, Jr., “Cosmic ray induced errors in MOS memory cells”, IEEE Trans. Nuclear Science, vol NS-25, 1978 Dec, pp 1166–1171.
4. L. L. Sivo, et al, “Cosmic ray-induced soft errors in static MOS memory cells”, IEEE Trans. Nuclear Science, vol NS-26, 1979 Dec, pp 5042–5047.
5. C. S. Guenzer, E. A. Wolicki, R. G. Allas, “Single event upset of dynamic RAMs by neutrons and protons”, IEEE Trans. Nuclear Science, vol NS-26, 1979 Dec, pp 5048–5052.
6. W. W. Peterson, E. J. Weldom, Error Correcting Codes, MIT Press, 1972.
7. G. W. Cox, B. D. Carroll, “A memory system reliability model”, Proc. IEEE Intern 7 Symp. Fault-Tolerant Computing, pp 467–476, 1977.
8. S. A. Elkind, D. P. Siewiorek, “Reliability and performance of error-correcting memory and register arrays”, IEEE Trans. Computers, vol C-29, 1980 Oct, pp 920–927.
9. D. E. Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming, vol 1, Fundamental Algorithms, Addison Wesley, 1973.
10. R. M. F. Goodman, R. J. McEliece, “Hamming codes, computer memories, and the birthday surprise”, Proc. 20 Ann. Allerton Conf. Communication, Control, Complexity, 1982 Oct, pp 672–679.
11. L. Kleinrock, Queuing Systems, vol 1, John Wiley & Sons, 1975.