High energy proton SEU test results for the commercially available MIPS R3000 microprocessor and R3010 floating point unit

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 1991, Pages 1421-1428

  Holtkamp, D B ^b   Kimbrough, J R ^a   Denton, S M ^a   Kaschmitter, J L ^a   Wilburn, J W ^a   Davis, R W ^a   Colella, N J ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATORS, LINEAR; PROTONS;

R3000 MICROPROCESSORS; SINGLE EVENT UPSETS;

COMPUTERS, MICROCOMPUTER;

EID: 0026390650     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.124127     Document Type: Article

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