Minimalist recovery techniques for single event effects in spaceborne microcontrollers

Dependable Computing for Critical Applications 7

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 47-65

  Caldwell, D W ^a,b   Rennels, D A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLERS; FAULT TOLERANCE;

EMBEDDED COMPUTING; FAULT TOLERANCE TECHNIQUES; FAULT TOLERANT DESIGN; FUNCTIONAL DENSITY; HIGH-SPEED SERIAL; RECOVERY TECHNIQUES; SINGLE EVENT EFFECTS; SPACE RADIATION ENVIRONMENT;

MICROCONTROLLERS;

EID: 84903999174     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DCFTS.1999.814289     Document Type: Conference Paper

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