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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2007
Mark Shaw, Plano, TX (US);
Larry Thayer, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Chris Petersen, Richardson, TX (US);
Lidia Warnes, Roseville, CA (US);
Dheemanth Nagaraj, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Mark Shaw, Plano, TX (US);
Larry Thayer, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Chris Petersen, Richardson, TX (US);
Lidia Warnes, Roseville, CA (US);
Dheemanth Nagaraj, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A method comprises detecting a defective area in a Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM). The method further comprises establishing a redundant memory buffer at a per-memory module level. The method still further comprises loading the redundant memory buffer with a copy of data from the defective area. The method additionally comprises substituting data from the redundant memory buffer for data stored in the defective area upon a memory access to the defective area.