METHOD TO INCREASE THE USABLE WORD WIDTH OF A MEMORY PROVIDING AN ERROR CORRECTION SCHEME

Various embodiments relate to a method for storing and reading data from a memory. Data words stored in the memory may be grouped, and word specific parity information and shared parity information is generated, and the shared parity information is distributed among the group of words. During readin...

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Main Authors FAY, Björn, OCHERETNY, Vitaly, OSTERTUN, Soenke
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
French
German
Published 22.03.2023
Subjects
BASIC ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY
CALCULATING
CODE CONVERSION IN GENERAL
CODING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
DECODING
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
ELECTRICITY
PHYSICS
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Summary:Various embodiments relate to a method for storing and reading data from a memory. Data words stored in the memory may be grouped, and word specific parity information and shared parity information is generated, and the shared parity information is distributed among the group of words. During reading of a word, if more errors are detected than can be corrected with word parity data, the shared parity data is retrieved and used to make the error corrections.
Bibliography:Application Number: EP20220189072