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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 12, 2006
Filed:
May. 09, 2003
Christopher M. Brueggen, Dallas, TX (US);
Christopher M. Brueggen, Dallas, TX (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a memory controller comprises a cache line processing block for processing a cache line into a plurality of segments, an error correction code (ECC) generation block that forms ECC code words for each of the plurality of segments for storage in a plurality of memory components, an ECC correction block for correcting at least one single-byte erasure error in each erasure corrupted ECC code word retrieved from the plurality of memory components, and an error seeding block that enables a respective error to be inserted into each ECC code word of the cache line in response to a plurality of error registers.