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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:
Jul. 13, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Infineon Technologies AG, Munich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 7/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 7/00 ;
Abstract
A method for integrating imperfect semiconductor memory devices having functional and defective memory cells into a data processing apparatus. The defective memory cells are assigned defect addresses or defect address ranges. Before a memory access of the data processing apparatus is carried out, the address of the memory access is compared with the defect addresses or defect address ranges and is recoded in the event of correspondence.