Total Ionizing Dose (TID) Tests on Non-Volatile Memories: Flash and MRAM

We report on TID tests of magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM), and advanced 4 Gbit flash memories from three manufacturers. Both in-situ and biased interval irradiations were used to characterize the response of the total accumulated dose failures.

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