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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 16, 2018
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Saravanan Sethuraman, Bangalore, IN;
Diyanesh B. Chinnakkonda Vidyapoornachary, Bangalore, IN;
Sridhar Rangarajan, Bangalore, IN;
Kirk D. Peterson, Jericho, VT (US);
John B. Deforge, Barre, VT (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Optimizing error correcting code (ECC) in three-dimensional (3D) stacked memory including selecting, as an ECC memory chip, a memory chip of a plurality of memory chips in a 3D stacked memory structure, wherein the 3D stacked memory structure comprises the plurality of memory chips stacked vertically and coupled together using through-silicon vias; determining that an error has been detected in one of the plurality of memory chips in the 3D stacked memory structure; selecting, based on the detected error, an order of an ECC decoder of the ECC stored in the ECC memory chip; and correcting the detected error in the 3D stacked memory structure using the ECC stored in the ECC memory chip.