Correction Masking: A Technique to Implement Efficient SET Tolerant Error Correction Decoders

Single Event Transients (SETs) can be a major concern for combinational circuits. Its importance grows as technology scales because a small charge can create a large disturbance on a circuit node. One example of circuits that can suffer from SETs is the decoders of the Error Correction Codes (ECCs) that are used to protect memories from errors. This paper presents Correction Masking (CM), a techni...