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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2011
Filed:
Feb. 15, 2007
William H. Radke, San Francisco, CA (US);
Shuba Swaminathan, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Brady L. Keays, Half Moon Bay, CA (US);
William H. Radke, San Francisco, CA (US);
Shuba Swaminathan, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Brady L. Keays, Half Moon Bay, CA (US);
Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Abstract
Data is read from a memory array. Before being stored in a data buffer, a Hamming code detection operation and a Reed-Solomon code detection operation are operated in parallel to determine if the data word has any errors. The results of the parallel detection operations are communicated to a controller circuit. If an error is present that can be corrected by the Hamming code correction operation, this is performed and the Reed-Solomon code detection operation is performed on the corrected word. If the error is uncorrectable by the Hamming code, the Reed-Solomon code correction operation is performed on the word.