Interesting how radiation issues could be solved in software.
Perhaps it's improving the checksum algorithm on network packets, or even ... adding one.
It comes down to voting algorithms and memory persistence. Sometimes there is a threshold before data are "voted out".
I don't work on the A320 but solar radiation is a well-known issue in avionics, generally speaking.
Edit: deleted some speculation
Finally turning on the ECC RAM option?
About one third require hardware mods.
Maybe there's a range that requires a change?
Now imagine, if it was over the air update, then maybe there would be no disruption?
Agreed, I expected additional shielding or something physical like that.
s/solved/mitigated/
To give you a bit of insight, around the same timeframe (late October/early November) I directly observed two high-accuracy RTK GPS receivers reporting high accuracy (2cm), full 3D DGPS lock with carrier phase, and positions wandering within about a 5m circle horizontally. The altitude was staying pretty consistent (within about 1m, which was outside of the reported accuracy but not bad) until there was a sudden 60m altitude shift. This was all while they were sitting static on the ground, verified both by the crew and the accelerometer, gyro, and RADAR data.
There wasn’t a software fix per se, but we were able to quickly add a check to verify that the Kalman Filter’s position variance estimate was on the same order of magnitude as the accuracy level that the receivers were reporting and put a big red warning up. This wasn’t a flight-critical system, but it is the first time we’d ever seen that behaviour from those receivers and we’ve used them for 5 years.