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What if the system to guard against this itself got a flipped bit? What if the malfunction caused it to think bits in "normal" memory were flipped when they wer
by bkudria 16y ago
What if the system to guard against this itself got a flipped bit? What if the malfunction caused it to think bits in "normal" memory were flipped when they weren't, really?
- derefr 16y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fault-tolerant_system#Fault-tolerance_by_replication http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fault-tolerant_system#Fault-tol...
- mturmon 16y agoQuite true. One standard solution is TMR: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_modular_redundancy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_modular_redundancy I doubt that Voyager used TMR, they probably used the best rad-hardened hardware they could build at the time (within power and weight constraints).