Computing glossary

Radiation hardening

Also called radiation-hardened, rad-hard, radiation-tolerant, single-event effects, SEE, total ionizing dose, TID

Designing or screening chips to survive radiation in space or near reactors. Single-event effects are glitches from individual particles; total ionizing dose is damage that builds up over time.

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