Hi Moshe,

May be this:
http://www.compliance-club.com/keith_armstrong.asp
will help you understand and then minimize your effect.

Piotr Galka


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Moshe Valdman" <[email protected]>
To: "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 6:37 PM
Subject: Microcontroller memory erased by noise


> Hi all,
>
> I have a 8051 compatible microcontroller (Silicon labs) on a board
> I had cases at customer sites where the internal RAM and even (more 
> rarely) internal flash was "erased". Seems like this was caused by noise 
> in those sites (e.g. other machines switched on\off)
> Any idea how noise could be coupled into the microcontroller? How can I 
> minimize such an effect?
>
> thanks in advance,
> Moshe Valdman
> Reliability Manager
> Orbotech
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