Ephemera

Ephemera

Soft errors involve changes to data - the electrons in a storage circuit, for example - but not changes to the physical circuit itself, the atoms. A bit is flipped and the cause of the flip vanishes. The error is ephemeral. It seems to me that this is an excellent time for research in theory and alg...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Computing in science & engineering 2010-01, Vol.12 (1), p.3-3
Main Author: Beichl, Isabel
Format: Article
Language:eng
Subjects:
Calendars
CiSE
Computer Society
ephemera
From the Editors
Guidelines
Isabel Beichl
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:Soft errors involve changes to data - the electrons in a storage circuit, for example - but not changes to the physical circuit itself, the atoms. A bit is flipped and the cause of the flip vanishes. The error is ephemeral. It seems to me that this is an excellent time for research in theory and algorithms for detection and correction of soft errors. I suspect this will be much harder than the classical theory. Let's call it the hard science of soft errors.
ISSN:1521-9615
1558-366X