%0 Journal Article %A Rehab I. Abdul Rahman and Mazhar B. Tayel %D 2015 %J International Journal of Electrical and Information Engineering %B World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology %I Open Science Index 98, 2015 %T Simulation of Hamming Coding and Decoding for Microcontroller Radiation Hardening %U https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10000673 %V 98 %X This paper presents a method of hardening the 8051 micro-controller, able to assure reliable operation in the presence of bit flips caused by radiation. Aiming at avoiding such faults in the 8051 micro-controller, Hamming code protection was used in its SRAM memory and registers. A VHDL code has been used for this hamming code protection. %P 209 - 214