Radiation Effects on EEPROM Memories

EEPROM devices are especially critical in the design since they are used to upload the instruction to the microprocessors and other configurable devices (boot code of these parts); this is, as configuration memories. Also, they are used to store debugging information, which is key to depurate errors in configurable devices. Any modification of its content because of a bit error (1 to 0 or 0 to 1) due to radiation causes could lead to major consequences.