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- Patent Title: Memory testing techniques
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Application No.: US16418833Application Date: 2019-05-21
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Publication No.: US11862271B2Publication Date: 2024-01-02
- Inventor: Andy Wangkun Chen , Yannis Jallamion-Grive , Cyrille Nicolas Dray
- Applicant: Arm Limited
- Applicant Address: GB Cambridge
- Assignee: Arm Limited
- Current Assignee: Arm Limited
- Current Assignee Address: GB Cambridge
- Agency: Pramudji Law Group PLLC
- Agent Ari Pramudji
- Main IPC: G11C29/00
- IPC: G11C29/00 ; G11C29/42 ; G06F11/27 ; G06F11/10 ; G11C29/34 ; G11C29/02 ; G11C29/18

Abstract:
Various implementations described herein refer to a device having an encoder coupled to memory. The ECC encoder receives input data from memory built-in self-test circuitry, generates encoded data by encoding the input data and by adding check bits to the input data, and writes the encoded data to memory. The device may have an ECC decoder coupled to memory. The ECC decoder reads the encoded data from memory, generates corrected data by decoding the encoded data and by extracting the check bits from the encoded data, and provides the corrected data and double-bit error flag as output. The ECC decoder has error correction logic that performs error correction on the decoded data based on the check bits, wherein if the error correction logic detects a multi-bit error in the decoded data, the error correction logic corrects the multi-bit error in the decoded data to provide the corrected data.
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