The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
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:
Oct. 31, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 12, 1998
Shi-Tron Lin, Taipei, TW;
Ding-Yuan Yang, Hsinchu, TW;
Winbond Electronics Corp., , TW;
Abstract
A computer system is provided which performs a self-test of the memory cells of a memory device prior to loading of a computer program into the memory device, so as to determine the locations of defective memory cells. During loading of the computer program, each instruction step, data block and stack declaration is decoded, and the present invention creates and inserts a jump instruction into the original program code to bypass any defective memory cells without interrupting the intended operation of the instruction steps that are loaded into the memory. The loaded program code is then modified to correct any address-referencing that may be changed due to the insertion of the jump instructions. The present invention can even periodically perform a self-test procedure during the normal operation of the computer system so as to locate new defective memory cells and to modify the program code to bypass these newly-located defective memory cells.
Data source: USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office) public patent records. Weekly synchronization. How IDiyas builds this profile