A method and system for reducing glitch effects in combinational logic is
presented. If combinational logic incurs a particle-induced single event
transient (SET) signal, a glitch reducing circuit, which is connected in
a signal path between the combinational logic and downstream logic, will
prevent the SET from propagating to the downstream logic. The glitch
reducing circuit functions as a signal filter that provides a
SET-filtered drive signal to downstream logic. The glitch reducing
circuit receives both the input to the combinational logic and the output
from the combinational logic. The input acts to enable or disable the
glitch reducing circuit, so that for certain input values, the glitch
reducing circuit passes the logic output signal to downstream logic, and
for other input values, the glitch reducing circuit blocks the output
signal from passing to downstream logic.