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Robust System Design - VLSI

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Who Cares About Soft Errors ?<br />

20K processors server farm<br />

1 major flip-flop error every 20 days<br />

Silent data corruption<br />

$ 20K $ 3,616 bank deposit<br />

Downtime: $100K - $10M / hr.<br />

Memory ECC routinely used<br />

<strong>System</strong> error rates increasing<br />

Comb. logic<br />

Flipflop<br />

Un<br />

protected<br />

memory<br />

Soft error rate<br />

contributions<br />

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