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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 24, 2010
Applicants:
Bill K. Kwan, Austin, TX (US);
Atchyuth K. Gorti, Austin, TX (US);
Norm Hack, Pflugerville, TX (US);
David Kaplan, Austin, TX (US);
Inventors:
Bill K. Kwan, Austin, TX (US);
Atchyuth K. Gorti, Austin, TX (US);
Norm Hack, Pflugerville, TX (US);
David Kaplan, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G11C 29/44 (2006.01); G11C 29/00 (2006.01); G11C 29/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 29/74 (2013.01); G11C 29/4401 (2013.01); G11C 2029/0409 (2013.01); G11C 2029/4402 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for saving and restoring soft repair information. One embodiment of the method includes storing soft repair information for one or more cache arrays implemented in a processor core in a memory element outside of the processor core in response to determining that a voltage supply to the processor core is to be disconnected.