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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of operation and an apparatus for radiation hardening a combinational logic circuit. SOLUTION: A section of logic that is to be radiation hardened is identified. An entire logic circuit or a portion of the logic circuit may be radiation hardened. Once the section of logic is identified, a Field Effect Transistor (FET) is duplicated so as to create a voter FET. The voter FET is coupled with an original node (or signal) and a duplicated node (or signal). If a radiation event strikes either the original node or the duplicated node, the voter FET will prevent an upset from propagating to down stream logic by preventing a conduction path through the voter FET. Additionally, all of the circuitry that was duplicated in order to create the duplicated node may also undergo a radiation event without causing an upset to propagate to downstream logic. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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