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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 23, 2009
Applicants:
Andre Scharfe, Bannewitz, DE;
Dieter Ansel, Heilbronn, DE;
Ingo Ruhm, Vierkirchen, DE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Atmel Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A memory device for an error-correcting block code is provided, whereby each code word of the block code can have data bits and parity bits. The device also includes a memory for storing the data bits and the parity bits of each code word, and includes an error detection circuit, which is formed to detect an error of the data bits in a code word by evaluating exactly one subset of the stored parity bits of the code word. The subset being smaller than the total number of parity bits of the code word.