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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:
Jul. 30, 1996
Filed:
Jun. 07, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Timothy J Dell, Colchester, VT (US);
Jimmy G Foster, Boca Raton, FL (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
371 493 ; 371 491 ;
Abstract
A SIMM is provided which adds ECC onto a computer system, which system does not have ECC capabilities. The SIMM has ECC on board. The SIMM also has logic to sense whether the system is an 'even' parity or 'odd' parity system. Parity of the written data bytes is checked, and check bits used for the ECC are manipulated to check parity on the read cycle responsive to the sensed parity of the system. During the read cycle, parity is generated by the logic corresponding to the sensed system parity, and ECC is performed.