This is a very general problem for any electronics in military and
space program. I think MSP430 family is not a good choice in this
respect. Years (~30?) ago, RCA made a CMOS 8-bit called 1802. I think
someone is still making it because it is radiation resistant. At
higher end, LEON is designed to be radiation resistant. It is an open
source design. Very old too.

--- In m...@yahoogroups.com, Hardy Griech wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> during my current project the question was raised, how sensitive the
> MSP430 devices are to bit flips due to radation or EMI or other effects.
>
> Bit flips may occur in the different areas of the MSP430:
>
> 1. RAM
> 2. Special Function Registers (SFRs) like P2SEL
> 3. internal SFRs which cannot be addressed by firmware,
> e.g. internal JTAG registers
> 4. not identified yet
>
> In all areas bit flips are fatal for long running applications. Fatal
> in this case means
> 'application partly/completely stopped', 'application delivering wrong
> results'...
>
> So my questions are:
> - how do you deal with bit flips or are you completely ignoring them?
> - does anybody has further information or experience with this topic?
>
> Many thanks for any suggestion!
>
> Hardy
>

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