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High-Energy Versus Thermal Neutron Contribution to Processor and Memory Error Rates

Authors :
Fernando Fernandes dos Santos
Daniel Oliveira
Robert Baumann
Paolo Rech
Carlo Cazzaniga
Gabriel Piscoya Davila
C. Frost
Source :
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. 67:1161-1168
Publication Year :
2020
Publisher :
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2020.

Abstract

We present the results of accelerated radiation testing on an AMD accelerated processing unit, three Nvidia graphic processing units, an Intel accelerator, a field-programmable gate array, and two double-data-rate memories under thermal and high-energy neutrons separately. The sensitivity depends on the device type and the code being executed and we show that thermal neutrons contribute to the error rate of modern computing devices under certain conditions.

Details

ISSN :
15581578 and 00189499
Volume :
67
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........962ea4c707401c997ab57adf84ab5eb9
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1109/tns.2020.2970535