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RealityVoidtoday at 11:27 AM2 repliesview on HN

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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Normal_gaussiantoday at 11:57 AM

Large portions of this comment provides zero to negative value. You've quoted two LLMs and couched it in "caveat emptor" and "so I'm not sure". The rest of your comment has then mused over this data you do not trust using generalities ("my profession" are you a JS S/W eng? A chip design specialist at ARM? A security researcher?).

All of the value of your comment comes from the first sentence and the last two.

Yokolostoday at 11:51 AM

EDAC is a general term for an error detection and correction system. It can encompass ECC memory or other solutions.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01419...