International Business Machines Corporation

Francis Anthony Creed

Peter Joel Jenkins

Charles E Drake

Mark Beiley

The preferred embodiment of the present invention provides a memory system for use in a computer system that improves the performance of a bit redundancy steering mechanism. The preferred embodiment provides a timing signal path to the bit steering mechanism with a delay shorter than that to the memory data array. Additionally, the required address signals are provided to the bit steering mechanism before the addresses are provided to the memory data array. This is preferably accomplished by bypassing the buffers and providing the address signals directly to the bit steering mechanism.

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Jericho, VT, United States of America

Francis Anthony Creed