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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 1988
Filed:
Feb. 28, 1986
Aloysius T Tam, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Thomas S Wong, San Jose, CA (US);
Jim L Michelsen, Santa Clara, CA (US);
David F Naren, Cupertino, CA (US);
David Wang, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A tag buffer having built-in testing capabilities is disclosed. In a single-chip, integrated-circuit design which includes a SRAM, a parity generator and checker, and a comparator, a method and capability of testing the functionality of the SRAM and parity components is defined. For an embodiment in which the SRAM component includes a redundancy scheme for replacing a defective memory array row, a test for determining whether a redundant row has been used is also provided.
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