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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 2008
Filed:
Jan. 07, 2005
Louis L. Hsu, Fish Kill, NY (US);
Gregory J. Fredeman, Staatsburg, NY (US);
Rajiv V. Joshi, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Toshiaki Kirihata, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Louis L. Hsu, Fish Kill, NY (US);
Gregory J. Fredeman, Staatsburg, NY (US);
Rajiv V. Joshi, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Toshiaki Kirihata, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A row redundancy system is provided for replacing faulty wordlines of a memory array having a plurality of banks. The row redundancy system includes a remote fuse bay storing at least one faulty address corresponding to a faulty wordline of the memory array; a row fuse array for storing row fuse information corresponding to at least one bank of the memory array; and a copy logic module for copying at least one faulty address stored in the remote fuse bay into the row fuse array; the copy logic module is programmed to copy the at least one faulty address into the row fuse information stored in the row fuse array corresponding to a predetermined number of banks in accordance with a selectable repair field size.