Effectiveness of Internal Versus External SEU Scrubbing Mitigation Strategies in a Xilinx FPGA: Design, Test, and Analysis

A comparison of two scrubbing mitigation schemes for Xilinx field programmable gate array devices is presented. The design of the scrubbers is briefly discussed along with an examination of mitigation limitations. Heavy ion data are then presented and analyzed.

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