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Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2017

Filed:

Dec. 09, 2015
Applicant:

Marvell Israel (M.i.s.l) Ltd., Yokneam, IL;

Inventor:

Yaron Kittner, Pardes Hanna-Karkur, IL;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 29/00 (2006.01); G06F 11/10 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/1076 (2013.01); G06F 3/064 (2013.01); G06F 3/0619 (2013.01); G06F 3/0673 (2013.01); G06F 11/1044 (2013.01);
Abstract

A memory comprises a set of content memory banks, a parity memory bank, and a register corresponding to the parity memory bank. A first memory interface device is configured to, in response to receiving a write request to write to the set of content memory banks, perform a write operation over multiple clock cycles including temporarily storing parity information corresponding to the write request in the register before the parity information is written to the parity memory bank. A second memory interface device is configured to: in response to i) receiving a read request to read data from a memory bank in the set of content memory banks, and ii) determining that information responsive to the read request is to be reconstructed using parity information, and selectively use information from either i) the register or ii) the parity memory bank, to reconstruct information responsive to the read request.


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