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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2007
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2005
Pochang Hsu, Fremont, CA (US);
Richard Keith Dodge, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Pochang Hsu, Fremont, CA (US);
Richard Keith Dodge, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An embodiment of the present invention is a technique to provide a reconfigurable repair circuit in a memory device. A table structure contains a plurality of entries, each entry having a defective address word and a redundant address word. The redundant address word corresponds to a redundant block and is generated in response to a memory access to a defective input/output (I/O) line in a memory block of the memory device. A decoding circuit decodes the redundant address word to select a redundant I/O line in the redundant block to replace the defective I/O line.