Simple Method for Estimating Neutron-Induced Soft Error Rates Based on Modified BGR Model

IEEE Electron Device Letters

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 89-91

  Tosaka, Y ^a   Kanata, H ^a   Satoh, S ^a   Itakura, T ^a  

^a FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cosmic ray neutrons; Modified BGR model; Neutron induced soft errors; Soft error rate

Indexed keywords

COSMIC RAYS; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

BURST GENERATION RATES (BGR); NEUTRON INDUCED SOFT ERROR RATES (SER);

NEUTRONS;

EID: 0033080235     PISSN: 07413106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/55.740661     Document Type: Article

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