Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method, system and computer program product for memory repair
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Application No.: US17815096Application Date: 2022-07-26
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Publication No.: US12014790B2Publication Date: 2024-06-18
- Inventor: Katherine H. Chiang , Chien-Hao Huang , Cheng-Yi Wu , Chung-Te Lin
- Applicant: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
- Applicant Address: TW Hsinchu
- Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
- Current Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: TW Hsinchu
- Agency: Hauptman Ham, LLP
- Main IPC: G11C29/00
- IPC: G11C29/00 ; G11C29/24 ; G11C29/42 ; G11C29/44 ; G11C29/12

Abstract:
A location of at least one fail bit to be repaired in a memory block of a memory is extracted from at least one memory test on the memory block. An available repair resource in the memory for repairing the memory block is obtained. It is checked, using machine learning, whether the at least one fail bit is unrepairable, according to the location of the at least one fail bit, and the available repair resource. When the checking indicates that the at least one fail bit is not unrepairable, it is determined whether a Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) containing a plurality of constraints is solvable. The constraints correspond to the location of the at least one fail bit in the memory block, and the available repair resource. In response to determining that the CSP is not solvable, the memory block is marked as unrepairable or the memory is rejected.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220366996A1 METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR MEMORY REPAIR Public/Granted day:2022-11-17
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