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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 18, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 05, 2008
Yan Zhang, Cupertino, CA (US);
Paul Yang LU, Los Altos, CA (US);
Yue Chen, Fremont, CA (US);
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for ensuring data integrity in a data processing system are disclosed. The method may include monitoring when data for a specified device is available for error correction code generation. A new error correction code may be generated in hardware for the data, based on the indicated size of the data. Detected errors may be corrected in software, based on the generated new error correction code. A first indication of the specified device, a second indication of the data and a third indication of a size of the data may be received during the monitoring. The method may also include indicating when the generating of the new error correction code for a specified number of accesses for at least a portion of the data is complete, and enabling or disabling the error correction code generation. The enabling and/or the disabling may be accomplished via an enable signal.