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To: Saturn V who wrote (134417)5/8/2001 3:45:40 PM
From: Tony Viola  Respond to of 186894
 
Saturn, good info: I never heard it expressed in terms of numbers of electrons that could cause a cell to flip.

Tony



To: Saturn V who wrote (134417)5/8/2001 4:00:26 PM
From: Paul Engel  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 186894
 
Saturn - Re: "For silicon chips a Soft Error implies a random but permanent loss of data "

A slight correction.

The Data loss is only temporary - until corrected (assuming ECC) or new data is written over the "old -erroneous" data.

Soft Errors destroy only the data in a bit - not the storage cell itself.

Paul


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