Self-healing bubble memories

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1985-09-25

1988-07-19

Atkinson, Charles E.

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365 1, 371 38, G06F 1110

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047590203

ABSTRACT:
A block replicate magnetic bubble memory organization is disclosed in which a number of storage loops are arranged between write and read tracks. Data in the read track is supplied to a deskewing circuit under the control of one section of an EAPROM so that the deskewing circuit outputs one page at a time, where each bit of the page is derived from a different storage loop, to a buffer and error correcting circuit which supplies corrected information to a data processing system as long as only one error bit has occurred on a page. If an error does occur in a page, the processor which has stored in it information relating to all of the used and unused loops of the system, controls another section of the EAPROM so that the defective loop will be exchanged for a good loop after a predetermined number of failures have occurred for the particular bad loop. The write side of the EAPROM is subsequently updated by the processor or remote processor that utilizes the read-out data. Data which is stored in the buffer and has been corrected by the error correcting circuitry is supplied to the skewing circuit under the control of the write side of the EAPROM so it may be written back into the loops of the bubble memory.

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