Liberal arts types say engineers are not creative, but they&#x27;re wrong.  Find some creative engineers, it won&#x27;t be much of a challenge.<p>Write 5 lines of perl that run logical AND and logical OR on a randomly generated bitmap emulating flash memory error rates at 1e-3, 1e-5, 1e-7, then run a billion emulation cycles (depending on code complexity this might take a long time, or maybe not).<p>If you&#x27;re doing it right, you have the code for the emulator, never use closed source for this kind of work unless you trust it with your life (LOL) so implement statistical error injection in your emulator.  Guess what, your CPU adder now has a 1e-5 bit error rate.<p>This is before the dreaded &quot;programmer with a soldering iron&quot; is unleashed.  A white noise source is attached to pin D0 of the CPU and levels are increased while behavior of the system is analyzed in the test jig.<p>Simplistically, radiation is linear, so running at 100x intensity for a month is the same as running at design intensity for 100 months.  Talk to your local nuclear physicist or radiologist.  Especially about neutron activated decay products, LOL.  In more detail, if it takes xenon 12 hours to build up to a problem level, you can&#x27;t just test at 100x intensity for an hour and call it good because 11 hours after the test ends you&#x27;ll finally have 100x the xenon decay product as a contaminant, but that&#x27;s a weird situation.