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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Niranjan Behera, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Shreekanth K. Sampigethaya, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Virage Logic Corporation, Fremont, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 7/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 7/00 ;
Abstract
An apparatus and method in which a single fuse is asserted in a memory bank having a redundancy memory column structure. The assertion of the single fuse causes two or more of the input-output circuits to shift away from a primary memory column to a substitute memory column.