A Statistical Technique to Measure the Proportion of MBU's in SEE Testing

19 December 2006

journal article
Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Vol. 53 (6) , 3139-3144
https://doi.org/10.1109/tns.2006.883907

Abstract

Neutron SEE data for memories shows that the distribution of MBU's is a geometrical progression. We demonstrate that this permits the proportion of MBU's to be calculated from the mean and variance of the errors per read-cycle

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