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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 25, 2009
Esin Terzioglu, Aliso Viejo, CA (US);
Gil I. Winograd, Aliso Viejo, CA (US);
Morteza Cyrus Afghahi, Aliso Viejo, CA (US);
Esin Terzioglu, Aliso Viejo, CA (US);
Gil I. Winograd, Aliso Viejo, CA (US);
Morteza Cyrus Afghahi, Aliso Viejo, CA (US);
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to a system and method for providing redundancy in a hierarchically memory, by replacing small blocks in such memory. The present invention provides such redundancy (i.e., replaces such small blocks) by either shifting predecoded lines or using a modified shifting predecoder circuit in the local predecoder block. In one embodiment, the hierarchal memory structure includes at least one active predecoder adapted to be shifted out of use; and at least one redundant predecoder adapted to be shifted in to use.