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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. 17, 2007
Filed:
May. 05, 2004
Applicant:
Thomas H. Hamilton, Manor, TX (US);
Inventor:
Thomas H. Hamilton, Manor, TX (US);
Assignee:
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Methods and apparatus are provided for use in testing a memory () coupled to a processing node (). A background scrubber () in the processing node () is initialized to perform a test of the memory (). A status of the background scrubber () is checked in which the status indicates whether an error occurred during the test. A predetermined action is taken in response to the status indicating that the error occurred during the test.