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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 12, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2003
Andrew M. Spencer, Eagle, ID (US);
Todd C. Adelmann, Boise, ID (US);
Stewart R. Wyatt, Boise, ID (US);
Kenneth Kay Smith, Boise, ID (US);
Andrew M. Spencer, Eagle, ID (US);
Todd C. Adelmann, Boise, ID (US);
Stewart R. Wyatt, Boise, ID (US);
Kenneth Kay Smith, Boise, ID (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A device comprises a memory array in which a plurality of codewords is stored. Each codeword comprises an error correction code and a data block that comprises a plurality of units of data. The device further comprises an error code correction module coupled to the memory array. When multiple units of data are to be read from the device for an address, a codeword stored in a location associated with the address is fetched from the memory array, the error code correction module decodes the codeword and corrects any errors in the data block for that codeword, and the multiple units of data are read from the corrected data block.