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Soft error

Term · Industrial and trades · MLC-T-IND-005445

A transient data corruption in a digital circuit or memory that does not indicate a permanent hardware defect. This type of error results from external factors such as cosmic rays or alpha particles interacting with semiconductor materials. It can cause a system malfunction but is typically corrected by re-executing the affected operation or by error correction codes.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-IND-005445
FieldIndustrial and trades
SubjectIndustrial electronics
TranslationsGerman: Soft Error; Spanish: error suave; French: erreur logicielle
Record as JSON 
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  "id": "MLC-T-IND-005445",
  "term": "Soft error",
  "field": "Industrial and trades",
  "definition": "A transient data corruption in a digital circuit or memory that does not indicate a permanent hardware defect. This type of error results from external factors such as cosmic rays or alpha particles interacting with semiconductor materials. It can cause a system malfunction but is typically corrected by re-executing the affected operation or by error correction codes.",
  "subject": "Industrial electronics",
  "translations": {
    "de": "Soft Error",
    "es": "error suave",
    "fr": "erreur logicielle"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/industrial/soft-error/"
}

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