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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:
Aug. 13, 1996
Filed:
Aug. 02, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Manabu Ando, Tokyo, JP;
Junji Monden, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
371 402 ; 371501 ;
Abstract
A semiconductor memory device has a built-in error correction system for correcting undesirably inverted data bits, and the built-in error correction system starts a parity bit generating sequence and an error correcting sequence only when increase of error rate is forecasted, thereby increasing the access speed without sacrifice of the reliability.