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Liftyeetoday at 11:15 AM1 replyview on HN

What does EDAC mean here? I wasn't able to find a definition. My guess is "error detection and correction"?

Difference between it and ECC?


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RealityVoidtoday at 11:27 AM

That was my initial confusion as well. It means exactly what you guessed, "Error detection and correction". The term is also spelled out in the report. I asked Claude about it (caveat emptor) and it said EDAC is the correct name for the circuitry and implementation itself whereas ECC is the algorithm. Gemini said that EDAC is the general technique and ECC is one implementation variant. So, at this point, I'm not sure. They are used interchangeably (maybe wrongly so), and in this case, we're referring to, essentially, the same thing, with maybe some small differences in the details. In my professional life, almost always I referred to ECC. In the report, they were only using EDAC. I thought I'd maintain consistency with the report so I tried using EDAC as well.

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