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Silent data corruption prevention due to instruction corruption by soft errors

US6543028B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateMar 31, 2000
Grant dateApr 1, 2003
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Expiry dateMar 31, 2020

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH03M13/11
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A technique to detect and correct corruption of instructions by soft errors. A parity bit is propagated with an instruction through the instruction flow path and checked at selected places. When a parity error is detected, a replay circuit is used to perform a replay to reload the instruction to remove the corrupted instruction.

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