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7620876 Reducing false positives in configuration error detection for programmable devices  
A device reduces false positive memory error detections by using a masking unit and sensitivity mask data to exclude unused portions of the memory from the error detection computations. A device...
7620875 Error correction code memory system with a small footprint and byte write operation  
A method, apparatus and program storage device that provides an error correction code memory system with a small footprint and byte write operation. A memory controller virtualizes the memory...
7617437 Error correction device and method thereof  
A device for error correction includes a memory control module to disable error processing for a memory location depending on the state of a status indicator. The status indicator can be set so...
7616484 Soft errors handling in EEPROM devices  
Soft errors occur during normal use of a solid-state memory such as EEPROM or Flash EEPROM. A soft error results from the programmed threshold voltage of a memory cell being drifted from its...
7610542 Semiconductor memory in which error correction is performed by on-chip error correction circuit  
A synchronous semiconductor memory which performs a pipeline operation includes an error correction circuit, an output circuit, and first and second write circuits. The first write circuit is...
7610541 Computer compressed memory system and method for storing and retrieving data in a processing system  
A computer compressed memory system for storing and retrieving data in a processing system, includes a memory including at least one memory device for storing at least one of uncompressed data and...
7609777 Maximum likelihood a posteriori probability detector  
A communication device comprising an ML-APP detector coupled to at least two antennas. The ML-APP detector comprises at least one Hx unit coupled to at least one LLR unit. The Hx unit generates a...
7607067 Method and apparatus for accessing memory  
A two-dimensional array is stored in a first storage memory. A data accessing direction of the first storage memory is in a row direction. A method for reading data in the two-dimensional array in...
7606222 System and method for increasing the range or bandwidth of a wireless digital communication network  
A system and method, associated with a receiver, for increasing the range or bandwidth of a wireless digital communication network and a receiver incorporating the system or the method. In one...
7603609 Method and system for optimized instruction fetch to protect against soft and hard errors  
A method of detecting error during transfer of instructions from a data memory to a computer processor. At the time of the commencement of transmission of the instructions, the raw data signal is...
7603592 Semiconductor device having a sense amplifier array with adjacent ECC  
A semiconductor memory device capable of achieving a sufficient operating margin without increasing an area penalty even in the case of miniaturization is provided. An error correction system...
7596738 Method and apparatus for classifying memory errors  
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that determines the cause of a correctable memory error. First, the system detects a correctable error during an access to a memory...
7594158 Parity error checking and compare using shared logic circuitry in a ternary content addressable memory  
Methods and apparatus for performing, using smaller, more efficient shared logic circuitry, the parity checking function and the compare function in a mutually exclusive manner in different cycles...
7590919 Apparatus, method and computer program product for reading information stored in storage medium, and storage medium for storing information based on charge amount  
A reproducing apparatus includes a storage unit including a plurality of memory elements each capable of holding an electric charge, each memory element indicating a 2-bit code which is related to...
7590918 Using a phase change memory as a high volume memory  
A phase change memory may be utilized in place of more conventional, higher volume memories such as static random access memory, flash memory, or dynamic random access memory. To account for the...
7590913 Method and apparatus of reporting memory bit correction  
Briefly, a method, main processing unit and a computer system to report a failure in a bit of a memory line by updating first and second counters for a first time and a second time correction of...
7587658 ECC encoding for uncorrectable errors  
An error detecting and correcting method and mechanism. An error correcting code for data is utilized wherein a special syndrome pattern is used to indicate corresponding data includes a previously...
7587655 Method of transferring signals between a memory device and a memory controller  
Method and apparatus for communication (e.g., transmitting and/or receiving) command, address and data signals from a memory device to a memory controller or vice versa. The data signals are...
7586993 Interleaver memory selectably receiving PN or counter chain read address  
A method and apparatus for interleaving multiple frames of data as disclosed provide for an extremely streamlined approach to achieving both methods of interleaving as defined in the IS-2000...
7586099 Vacuum plasma generator  
A vacuum plasma generator (VPG) includes an output connector for electrical connection of the VPG to at least one electrode of a plasma chamber. The VPG includes a mains connector for connection of...
7581153 Memory with embedded error correction codes  
A memory has one bus for data, addresses, and commands. A data register is coupled to the bus to store the data written to and read from the memory, a command register is coupled to the bus for...
7577809 Content control systems and methods  
A control system comprises an interface configured to receive a content request from a request source wherein the content request identifies content stored on a storage medium. The control system...
7571379 Method and system for configuring registers in microcontrollers, and corresponding computer-program product  
A system for configuring registers of microcontrollers includes first register and second registers. The system includes a data source for loading a datum into the first register and the logic...
7571371 Parallel parity checking for content addressable memory and ternary content addressable memory  
Methods and arrangements for parallel parity checking for content addressable memory and ternary content addressable memory during compare cycles are disclosed. Further, methods and arrangements...
7571357 Memory wrap test mode using functional read/write buffers  
A memory controller for a processing unit provides a memory wrap test mode path which selectively writes data from the write buffer of the controller to the read buffer of the controller, thereby...
7570447 Storage control device and method for detecting write errors to storage media  
There are provided a cache region that stores write data from a host device, storage media, a data storage region for the storage media, and a comparison unit. A first comparison object is...
7568228 Intrusion detection in data processing systems  
Described is apparatus for testing an intrusion detection system in a data processing system. The apparatus comprises an attack generator for generating attack traffic on a communications path in...
7568146 Semiconductor storage device and pseudo SRAM  
To provide a semiconductor storage device capable of reducing the number of ECC bits. A semiconductor storage device according to an embodiment of the invention includes a memory cell array, an ECC...
7565602 Memory error detection device and method for detecting a memory error  
A memory error detection device for a memory having cells arranged in memory rows and columns, wherein the memory is occupied such that the protection memory row or column has a predetermined...
7565597 Fast parity scan of memory arrays  
A novel method for scanning bit parity in a memory array, and a circuit for implementing it, are disclosed. In a memory array that has one or more rows of memory cells, the method for checking data...
7565596 Data recovery systems  
Embodiments of methods and systems for controlling access to information stored on memory or data storage devices are disclosed. In various embodiments, methods of retrieving information from a...
7565587 Background block erase check for flash memories  
Memory devices and methods of operating memory devices provide for using differing potentials during erase verify operations facilitate normal erase operations and subsequent erase check...
7555699 Storage control circuit, and method for address error check in the storage control circuit  
A method for address error check in a storage control circuit having a storage unit operable to store data in a storage area specified by an address encodes a first code assigned to the address...
7551478 Apparatus, method and computer program product for reading information stored in storage medium  
An apparatus for reproducing information includes a memory unit which stores charge; a reading unit which obtains an amount of the charge stored in the memory unit, and reads information by...
7549109 Memory circuit, such as a DRAM, comprising an error correcting mechanism  
A dual port memory circuit has a memory plane including first and second modules each constituted of an array of memory cells arranged in columns and rows, each row of the memory plane allowing...
7546515 Method of storing downloadable firmware on bulk media  
A portion of data stored in a non-volatile memory may be found to be corrupted when it is read. Where parity data is generated from portions of data and the parity data is stored with the portions...
7546514 Chip correct and fault isolation in computer memory systems  
Systems and methods for implementing chip correct and fault isolation in computer memory systems are disclosed. An exemplary method may include interleaving check bits with a data word to form at...
7543218 DVD decoding method and apparatus using selective po-correction  
A method of decoding DVD-format data may include: receiving a demodulated error correction code (ECC) block of DVD-format data; parity-of-inner-code-correcting (PI-correcting) the demodulated ECC...
7543216 Cyclic redundancy checking of a field programmable gate array having an SRAM memory architecture  
A method for detecting an error in data stored in configuration SRAM and user assignable SRAM in a FPGA comprises providing serial data stream into the FPGA from an external source, loading data...
7543215 Integrated apparatus for multi-standard optical storage media  
An integrated apparatus for multi-standard optical media includes a compact disc/digital versatile disc (CD/DVD) processor, a high-definition DVD (HDDVD) processor and a Blu-ray disc (BD)...
7543211 Toggle memory burst  
A controller for a toggle memory that performs burst writes by reading a group of bits in the toggle memory and comparing each received data word of the burst with a portion of the group to...
7536627 Storing downloadable firmware on bulk media  
A portion of data stored in a non-volatile memory may be found to be corrupted when it is read. Where parity data is generated from portions of data and parity data is stored with the portions of...
7533330 Redundancy for storage data structures  
A storage device comprising has a storage medium, a read-write mechanism, an object-based file system interface, and a controller. The read-write mechanism is adapted to read and to write data from...
7533322 Method and system for performing function-specific memory checks within a vehicle-based control system  
Integrity of data stored in a memory space associated with a vehicle-based control system (such as a traction enhancement system) is verified through the use of sub-module checksums. A checksum for...
7533321 Fault tolerant encoding of directory states for stuck bits  
A method of handling a stuck bit in a directory of a cache memory, by defining multiple binary encodings to indicate a defective cache state, detecting an error in a tag stored in a member of the...
7530009 Data storage method and data storage device  
A data storage device comprising a disk storage medium containing user data in a plurality of sectors wherein each of the plurality of sectors comprises a subdivision of a track, a head for writing...
7530005 Storage device  
The present invention has been made to realize a storage device capable of normally reading out data from the erase processing applied area. In a semiconductor storage device 1, when data read...
7529985 Memory size allocation device and method for interleaving  
A method and device for interleaving the (N+1) input data and for allocating the corresponding memory comprises the steps of allocating a m th buffer section equals to (m×Dm+Pm) memory address...
7526713 Low power cost-effective ECC memory system and method  
A memory controller couples 32-bit data words to and from a DRAM. The DRAM generates error checking and correcting syndromes to check and correct read data. The DRAM generates the syndromes from...
7526692 Diagnostic interface architecture for memory device  
A diagnostic interface architecture for a memory device supports in one aspect one or more dynamically reconfigurable functional interconnects normally utilized in connection with reading data from...
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