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> A consumer chip is a lot more likely to be permanently damaged by a "silver bullet" cosmic ray, though.

How much more likely? Are the odds all that high over the mission duration?




I don't have any numbers for you, but here's a starting source: https://hps.org/publicinformation/ate/q11162.html

Most of my knowledge of the subject is from a friend who did his PhD dissertation on it; specifically, triply-redundant adder circuits for single-bit operations, allowing for some rad-hard chip designs using regular foundry processes.




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