FAA tests spur a fundamental software redesign of Boeing 737 MAX flight controls
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Re: FAA tests spur a fundamental software redesign of Boeing 737 MAX flight controls
#2"A neutron hitting a cell on a microprocessor can change the cell’s electrical charge, flipping its binary state from 0 to 1 or from 1 to 0. The result is that although the software code is right and the inputs to the computer are correct, the output is corrupted by this one wrong bit."
Re: FAA tests spur a fundamental software redesign of Boeing 737 MAX flight controls
#3"A neutron hitting a cell on a microprocessor can change the cell’s electrical charge, flipping its binary state from 0 to 1 or from 1 to 0. The result is that although the software code is right and the inputs to the computer are correct, the output is corrupted by this one wrong bit."
Also known as a Single Event Upset in the industry.
Re: FAA tests spur a fundamental software redesign of Boeing 737 MAX flight controls
#4As someone who works in this field I have to say this is a really well written article.
Discussing topics like Design Assurance Level and failure condition classification(major vs catastrophic), Single Event Upsets (bit flips), safety assessments in a really clear and well written way.