Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and apparatus for memory fault tolerance
- Patent Title (中): 存储器容错的方法和装置
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Application No.: US13285864Application Date: 2011-10-31
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Publication No.: US09165677B2Publication Date: 2015-10-20
- Inventor: Curtis Ling , Vadim Smolyakov , Timothy Gallagher , Glenn Gulak
- Applicant: Curtis Ling , Vadim Smolyakov , Timothy Gallagher , Glenn Gulak
- Applicant Address: US CA Carlsbad
- Assignee: MAXLINEAR, INC.
- Current Assignee: MAXLINEAR, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Carlsbad
- Agency: McAndrews, Held & Malloy, Ltd.
- Main IPC: G11C7/10
- IPC: G11C7/10 ; G11C7/00 ; G11C29/08 ; G11C29/00 ; G06F11/10 ; G11C29/04 ; G11C29/44

Abstract:
A plurality of data lines and a plurality of bit lines may be used to write to and/or read from an array of memory cells. A switching element may select among different mappings between the plurality of data lines and the plurality of bit lines. The array may, for example, consist of N memory cells, the plurality of bit lines may consist of N bit lines, and the plurality of data lines may consist of N data lines, where N is an integer greater than 1. For a write operation in which a data block is to be written to the array, a configuration of the switching element may be controlled based, at least in part, on how sensitive the data block is to a faulty memory cell among the array of memory cells.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120294094A1 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEMORY FAULT TOLERANCE Public/Granted day:2012-11-22
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