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Instead of plain redundancy, error correcting codes (e.g. Hamming code) should be able to control errors http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error-correcting_code#Lis

• ars 15y ago
  What happens when your error correcting circuit gets hit with such a particle? Or worse - the CRC generating circuit does, generating a value which causes you to "correct" things to an incorrect value.
  • bdonlan 15y ago
    If your CRC generator gets damaged, then it will produce values that are inconsistent with the CRC checker, which is in another piece of equipment. At which point your component gets kicked out of the system entirely, and all is well. Note also that CRC is an error detection code, and cannot correct detected errors.
• anacrolix 15y ago
  Won't that just decrease the possibility orders and orders of magnitude, but it will still exist?