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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:
May. 02, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 31, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Steven J Brunelle, Boise, ID (US);
Assignee:
Micron Electronics, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
365201 ; 371 212 ;
Abstract
A system for efficiently testing and diagnosing memory arrays. One embodiment of the testing system efficiently identifies faulty memory cells in a memory chip, and subsequently removes the memory chip containing the faulty memory cells from the testing process. The system includes a testing module and an active port list which includes an identifier for each of a plurality of memory chips.