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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 16, 2004
Filed:
Apr. 04, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Hung-Mao Lin, San Jose, CA (US);
Jyh-Cherng Lin, San Jose, CA (US);
Douglas Chen, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Assignee:
ProMOS Technologies Inc., , TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 2/900 ; G06F 1/200 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 2/900 ; G06F 1/200 ;
Abstract
Aspects for increasing yield in an embedded memory device are described. With the aspects of the present invention, a cache is provided for a memory unit of an embedded memory device. Attempts to access a failed bit memory location in the memory unit are determined. When a failed memory bit location is being accessed, substitution of a memory location in the cache for the failed bit memory location occurs.