Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery – Pulse or data error handling – Replacement of memory spare location – portion – or segment
Reexamination Certificate
2008-03-25
2008-03-25
Britt, Cynthia (Department: 2117)
Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery
Pulse or data error handling
Replacement of memory spare location, portion, or segment
C714S723000, C365S201000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07350119
ABSTRACT:
A hierarchical encoding format for coding repairs to devices within a computing system. A device, such as a cache memory, is logically partitioned into a plurality of sub-portions. Various portions of the sub-portions are identifiable as different levels of hierarchy of the device. A first sub-portion may corresponds to a particular cache, a second sub-portion may correspond to a particular way of the cache, and so on. The encoding format comprises a series of bits with a first portion corresponding to a first level of the hierarchy, and a second portion of the bits corresponds to a second level of the hierarchy. Each of the first and second portions of bits are preceded by a different valued bit which serves to identify the hierarchy to which the following bits correspond. A sequence of repairs are encoded as string of bits. The bit which follows a complete repair encoding indicates whether a repair to the currently identified cache is indicated or whether a new cache is targeted by the following repair. Therefore, certain repairs may be encoded without respecifying the entire hierarchy.
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White Scott A.
Zuraski, Jr. Gerald D.
Advanced Micro Devices , Inc.
Britt Cynthia
Meyertons Hood Kivlin Kowert & Goetzel P.C.
Rankin Rory D.
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