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Memory having a redundancy scheme to allow one fuse to blow per faulty memory column

US6396760B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateMar 16, 2001
Grant dateMay 28, 2002
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Expiry dateMar 16, 2021

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG11C29/848
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An apparatus and method in which a single fuse is asserted in a memory bank having a redundancy memory column structure. The assertion of the single fuse causes two or more of the input-output circuits to shift away from a primary memory column to a substitute memory column.

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