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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2021
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2019
Winbond Electronics Corp., Taichung, TW;
Chuen-Der Lien, San Jose, CA (US);
Ming-Huei Shieh, San Jose, CA (US);
Seow-Fong Lim, San Jose, CA (US);
Ngatik Cheung, San Jose, CA (US);
Chi-Shun Lin, San Jose, CA (US);
Winbond Electronics Corp., Taichung, TW;
Abstract
The disclosure is directed to a memory storage apparatus having a dynamic data repair mechanism. The memory storage apparatus includes a connection interface; a memory array; and a memory control circuit configured at least to: receive, from the connection interface, a write command which includes a user data and an address of the user data; encode the user data as a codeword which includes the user data and parity bits; write the codeword, in a first memory location of the memory array, as a written codeword; perform a read procedure of the written codeword to determine whether the written codeword is erroneously written; and store a redundant codeword of the user data in a second memory location in response to having determined that the written codeword is erroneously written.