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I used to work for two switch chip companies also. I know both of them has SW/logic in the switch chips guard against random errors in SRAM - "Alpha particles"
by srcmap 8y ago
I used to work for two switch chip companies also. I know both of them has SW/logic in the switch chips guard against random errors in SRAM - "Alpha particles". I have seen detail test report that ran the system in nuclear lab and graph out the level of radiation level vs impact on the system error/recoverable error rate.
I knew big customers (such as Cisco) can ask for such test reports and they do get it.
It would be very interesting experiment to position some modem/old (7, 14, 28 nm chips) electronics (cell phones, raspberry Pi + solar panels) to various distant near nuclear accident site, monitor them remotely, classify and log the failure rate over the months/ years.
- myrandomcomment 8y agoWe would take the switches to the labs and have the "shoot" various types of particles other radiation sources at it to check resistance in both HW and SW. Depending on what you did sometime it takes months get get the device back as it has to "cool down". It was pretty neat.