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Stellina
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Reged: 27/03/2006
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Re: Airborne satnav

16/05/2008 20:53

There are some interesting issues with soft errors that aircraft computers have to cope with. The effects of radiation are 300 times higher for aircraft at high altitides than for a computer a sea level. For this reason they use "radiation hardened" components and error-correcting memory .

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Airborne satnav	Graham_Wright	16/05/2008 08:56
Re: Airborne satnav	MASH	16/05/2008 11:58
Re: Airborne satnav	Graham_Wright	16/05/2008 12:38
Re: Airborne satnav	MASH	16/05/2008 14:20
Re: Airborne satnav	William_H	17/05/2008 03:16
Re: Airborne satnav	Tinkicker	17/05/2008 18:14
Re: Airborne satnav	William_H	16/05/2008 12:13
Re: Airborne satnav	Graham_Wright	16/05/2008 12:40
Re: Airborne satnav	jokaboat	16/05/2008 11:09
Re: Airborne satnav	noswellplease	16/05/2008 12:28
Re: Airborne satnav	Graham_Wright	16/05/2008 11:25
Re: Airborne satnav	Stellina	16/05/2008 20:53

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