Invention Grant
- Patent Title: On-the-fly repair method for memory
- Patent Title (中): 内存的动态修复方法
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Application No.: US13017372Application Date: 2011-01-31
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Publication No.: US08527839B2Publication Date: 2013-09-03
- Inventor: Chun-Hsiung Hung , Shuo-Nan Hung , Tseng-Yi Liu
- Applicant: Chun-Hsiung Hung , Shuo-Nan Hung , Tseng-Yi Liu
- Applicant Address: TW Hsinchu
- Assignee: Macronix International Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Macronix International Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: TW Hsinchu
- Agency: McClure, Qualey & Rodack, LLP
- Main IPC: G11C29/00
- IPC: G11C29/00

Abstract:
An on-the-fly repair method for a memory includes: performing a block erase operation on the memory; checking whether the block erase operation is passed or not; finding whether there is any available and healthy redundancy block in the memory if the block erase operation is not passed; programming an address of a failed block to be repaired, an enable bit and at least one error correction bit into both first and second redundancy information regions in a redundancy information set of the memory; checking whether error in the first and the second redundancy information regions is recoverable based on the error correction bit; and if the error is recoverable, then programming the redundancy information set as effective to replace the failed block by the redundancy block related to the effective redundancy information set.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120198298A1 On-the-Fly Repair Method for Memory Public/Granted day:2012-08-02
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