Contribution of device simulation to SER understandfng

A summary is presented of recent works and new developments on device simulation of particle-induced upsets in SRAM memories. Upsets are assumed to be due to ionizing recoil products of nuclear reactions with atmospheric neutrons. The goal here is to enable predictive soft error rate (SER) calculations and deal with the probabilistic aspect of these events.

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