Bob- I'm the wrong guy to ask as I'm not really involved with the SEU work in any way. However I'll send you a contact off-list who can probably answer all of your questions regarding the SEU issue. -Ray rsefton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > >That TechXclusive uses a conversion fact= or of +30% increase in error rate >for every +1000 feet of elevation. At 30,= 000 feet that becomes 2620 times >the error rate at sea level, which is huge= . Does Xilinx have any data for >expected error rates in space and/or aviati= on applications? Or do you just >recommend not using SRAM-based FPGAs above = a certain altitude without some >kind of error detection and recovery scheme= ? > >Thanks, > >Bob S. > >On Wed Apr 13 11:15 , Ray Anderson sent: > >Chirag- > >Also see the following on the Xilinx web site for some comparisons >between low altitude and high altitude SEU numbers: > >http://www.xilinx.com/xlnx/xweb/xil_tx_display.jsp\= >?sGlobalNavPick=3D&sSecondtNum=3D1&sTechX_ID=3Dalpa_rosetta</FONT></A> > >If you talk to your FAE he can probably supply more data than is publically= >available, >though if you search under SEU on the Xilinx web site you'll come up with a= >multitude of related documents. > >-Ray > > > -- Raymond Anderson Senior Signal Integrity Staff Engineer Product Technology Dept. Package Engineering Group Xilinx Inc. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List FAQ wiki page is located at: http://si-list.org/wiki/wiki.pl?Si-List_FAQ List technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.org List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu