Pion-induced soft upsets in 16 Mbit DRAM chips

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 44, Issue 6 PART 1, 1997, Pages 2237-2242

  Gelderloos, C J ^a,d   Peterson, R J ^a,c,d   Nelson, M E ^a,b   Ziegler, J F ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY   (United States)

^c IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSMIC RAYS; NEUTRONS; PROTONS; RADIATION EFFECTS; RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE;

DYNAMIC RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY (DRAM); PION INDUCED SOFT UPSETS;

INTEGRATED CIRCUIT TESTING;

EID: 0031354385     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.659041     Document Type: Article

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