Patent · US Expired

SRAM-compatible memory for correcting invalid output data using parity and method of driving the same

US7165206B2 · kind B2 · utility

4Cited by
1References
15Claims
0Family size

Assignee

Inventors

Key dates

Filing dateSep 10, 2003
Grant dateJan 16, 2007
Priority date
Expiry dateDec 10, 2024

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG11C2211/4062
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Disclosed herein is an SRAM-compatible memory for correcting invalid output data using parity and a method of driving the same. In the SRAM-compatible memory, input data and a parity value obtained from the input data are written in data banks and parity bank, respectively. When invalid data is output from a specific memory bank due to the performance of a refresh operation or other factors, the invalid data are corrected by a data corrector using the parity value written in the parity bank, thus generating output data having the same logic value as the input data. The SRAM-compatible memory prevents a reduction in operation speed due to an internal operation, such as a refresh operation.

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.