MULTIPLE TIME PROGRAMMABLE MEMORY USING ONE TIME PROGRAMMABLE MEMORY AND ERROR CORRECTION CODES

    公开(公告)号:EP4060670A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-09-21

    申请号:EP22157204.3

    申请日:2022-02-17

    IPC分类号: G11C17/16 G11C17/18

    摘要: The present invention relates to the field of digital memory, and in particular to a multiple-time programmable (MTP) memory employing error correction codes (ECC), the MTP memory being made up of one-time programmable (OTP) memory modules. Pointers to the memory address of currently in-use OTP memory blocks in use for each virtual MTP memory block are stored in OTP memory with an error correcting code. The pointers encode the memory addresses according to a scheme that ensure that only bit changes in a single direction are required in both the pointer data and the error correction code when the memory address is incremented.

    MEMORY AND METHOD FOR WRITING THERETO
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    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:EP3916730A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-12-01

    申请号:EP21175167.2

    申请日:2021-05-21

    IPC分类号: G11C17/18 G11C29/00

    摘要: The present disclosure relates to a method for writing into a one-time programmable memory (216) of an integrated circuit (200), the method comprising:
    - attempting, by a memory control circuit (306) of the integrated circuit (200), to write data in at least one first register of the one-time programmable memory (216);
    - verifying, by the memory control circuit (306), whether the data has been correctly written in the at least one first register; and
    - in case the data has not been correctly written in the at least one first register, attempting, by the memory control circuit (306), to write the data in at least one second register of the one-time programmable memory (216).