Invention Grant
- Patent Title: DRAM error detection, evaluation, and correction
- Patent Title (中): DRAM错误检测,评估和校正
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Application No.: US13780205Application Date: 2013-02-28
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Publication No.: US09087612B2Publication Date: 2015-07-21
- Inventor: Michele M. Franceschini , Hillery C. Hunter , Ashish Jagmohan , Charles A. Kilmer , Kyu-hyoun Kim , Luis A. Lastras-Montano , Moinuddin K. Qureshi
- Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP
- Agent Robert R. Williams
- Main IPC: G06F11/10
- IPC: G06F11/10 ; G11C29/42 ; G11C29/44 ; G11C29/50 ; G11C7/04 ; G11C7/10 ; G11C29/04

Abstract:
Errors on a dynamic random access memory (“DRAM”) having an error correcting decoder (“ECC”) can be detected by the ECC when reading a row of the DRAM. The ECC includes error correcting code logic. If errors are detected that cannot be corrected by the ECC logic, test control logic determines weak cell information for the row, evaluates the errors using the weak cell information, and may correct the errors. The weak cell information may include weak cell locations and failure values.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140164874A1 DRAM ERROR DETECTION, EVALUATION, AND CORRECTION Public/Granted day:2014-06-12
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