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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 08, 2013
Inphi Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Chien-Hsin Lee, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inphi Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A memory device comprising an interface device and a plurality of memory arrays. The interface device includes an address match table comprising at least a revised address corresponding to a spare memory location and a control module configured to determine address information from the address stream from an address command bus coupled to the host controller during a run time operation. The control module is configured to compare each address from the address stream and determine whether each address matches with a stored address in the address match table to identify a bad address and configured to replace the bad address with the revised address of the spare memory location. The device also has a plurality of memory arrays. Each of the memory arrays comprises a plurality of memory cells. The memory device has a spare group of memory cells comprising a plurality of spare memory cells. Each of the plurality of spare memory cells being addressable using the address match table.