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Novel Fault-Tolerant Techniques for High Capacity RAMs
Seoul, Korea December 17-December 19
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/PRDC.2001.992673Eighth Pacific Rim International Symp ...
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In this paper, the memory columns (rows), include the redundancies, are partitioned into column blocks (row blocks), respectively. If the replacement is performed at the row-block level, then a row block-based FTM (RBFTM) system is used. Alternately, if the replacement is performed at the column-block level, then a column block-based FTM (CBFTM) system is used. If both approaches are incorporated into a memory chip, then the hybrid FTM (HFTM) system is achieved. Experimental results and analysis show that our fault-tolerant architectures can improve the yield for memory fabrication significantly. The reconfiguration mechanism requires almost negligible hardware overhead for high capacity memories. Moreover, the repair rates among different fault-tolerant strategies are also compared.
Index Terms:
built-in self-repair, divided bit-line, divided word-line, fault tolerance, and redundancy
Citation:
Chih-Hsien Hsu, Shyue-Kung Lu, Sy-Yen Kuo, "Novel Fault-Tolerant Techniques for High Capacity RAMs," prdc, pp.11, Eighth Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC'01), 2001
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