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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2016

Filed:

May. 01, 2014
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Lawrence D. Curley, Endwell, NY (US);

Glenn D. Gilda, Binghamton, NY (US);

Patrick J. Meaney, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 29/10 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 11/26 (2006.01); G11C 29/02 (2006.01); G11C 29/44 (2006.01); G06F 11/263 (2006.01); G06F 11/10 (2006.01); G11C 11/41 (2006.01); G11C 29/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/02 (2013.01); G06F 11/261 (2013.01); G06F 12/0253 (2013.01); G11C 29/02 (2013.01); G11C 29/10 (2013.01); G11C 29/44 (2013.01); G06F 11/106 (2013.01); G06F 11/26 (2013.01); G06F 11/263 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1032 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1044 (2013.01); G11C 11/41 (2013.01); G11C 2029/0409 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments relate to performing a memory scrubbing operation that includes injecting an error on a write operation associated with a memory address. One or more errors are detected during a two-pass scrub operation on the memory address. Based on a result of the two-pass scrub operation, one or more of a hard error counter associated with the memory address and a soft error counter associated with the memory address is selected. The one or more selected counters are updated based on the result of the two-pass scrub operation.


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