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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2019

Filed:

Aug. 07, 2017
Applicant:

Infineon Technologies Ag, Neubiberg, DE;

Inventors:

Thomas Kern, Aschheim, DE;

Michael Goessel, Mahlow, DE;

Albrecht Mayer, Deisenhofen, DE;

Assignee:

Infineon Technologies AG, Neubiberg, DE;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/34 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 11/07 (2006.01); G06F 11/10 (2006.01); G11C 11/56 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0619 (2013.01); G06F 11/073 (2013.01); G06F 11/076 (2013.01); G06F 11/079 (2013.01); G06F 11/1072 (2013.01); G11C 11/5628 (2013.01);
Abstract

The disclosure proposes a circuit including a memory which has a multiplicity of memory cells, the memory having a first area and a second area, at least one memory cell comprising a part of the first area and a part of the second area, the first area having a lower reliability than the second area, and the circuit being set up in such a manner that first bits are stored in the first area and second bits are stored in the second area. A circuit for reading the memory and methods for writing to and reading the memory are also disclosed.


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