[Gllug] Error correcting memory

[John Hearns]

> > On Tue 27 May, Mike Brodbelt wrote:
> > >
> >    I thought that about the only commonly available radiation tolerant
> > processors are the ARM range using CMOS technology. There are not many
> > servers that have used them, although I am not sure whether the new
Intel
> > X-range is radiation tolerant.
>
> No idea - but I sense an opportunity to get on Slashdot for someone with
> a CPU, a smoke detector, and too much time on their hands....
>
I had ideas as a physics undergraduate to use a CMOS memory chip as a
radiation detector.
Keep writing bit patterns to it, and reading again to see if there are
errors.

BTW, I don't think a smoke detector will do - that's an alpha source, and
the range is
unlikely to get through the chip packaging. (Then again you could I suppose
grind off the
top of the chip).

I'd guess a beta source would be better - or just natural cosmic rays.





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