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To: John Walliker who wrote (30701)	9/26/1999 10:02:00 AM
From: wily	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Thanks. eom

To: John Walliker who wrote (30701)	9/26/1999 4:04:00 PM
From: grok	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

RE: <Soft errors are usually caused by alpha particles emitted from minute amounts of radioactive contamination in the packaging materials. They can flip a DRAM logic state as they plough through the silicon. John> Yes, ECC is designed for soft errors which flip one (or more) memory bits. Sdram people can also use ECC to correct a bad driver, and bad connection on a connector, or even an entire dead chip (Chip Kill). With Rambus the problem is that many data bits making up the "ECC Word" travel over the same driver and connector pin so the "ECC Word" has too many failures to correct. (I know Rambus says they will provide Chip Kill sometime next year but even then who knows if it will correct a problem caused by a flake of Carl's skin on a connector?)