... request for him to do a bit of investigative simulation. A little while ago, I wrote about electromigration and its detrimental effect on silicon circuits. Although we recently taped out a major bug fix to the Flying Flux, we found after the fact that there are indeed a good number of significant electromigration concerns that may limit the part's lifetime. This requires repair of course, ...

... it is a strong presumption to invoke the possibility of assembling an arbitrarily large organized memory structure. Furthermore, in a world full of deleterious processes including noise, corrosion, electromigration, incident alpha particles and cosmic rays, earthquakes and spilled cups of coffee, it would be unreasonable to assume that each step in an unlimited sequence of operations can be ...