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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 2004
Filed:
Jul. 24, 2001
Ghislain Imbert de Tremiolles, St. Paul, FR;
Philippe Klein, La Gaude, FR;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system for accessing a memory organized in memorization subsystems or memory blocks, e.g. standard Dual In-line Memory Modules, wherein the words to be stored are split into unitary elements so that several memorization subsystems are used to store one word and its associated Block Error Code (BEC) bits, is disclosed. The system includes a detector to detect a failure within a memorization subsystem. Insulator that are associated to each memorization subsystem insulate the failed memory block, and a new memorization subsystem is accessed in lieu of the failed one thanks to identification device which determine an available unfailed memory block. The user may replace the failed memory block without shutting down the memory device.