Processing-in-memory instruction set with homomorphic error correction

A method of processing data in a memory device that supports processing-in-memory (PIM) operations, the method comprising:

• determining a category of an instruction received by a first processor;
• and
• processing one or more category-dependent operations based on the category determined, wherein the processing one or more category-dependent operations comprise:
• selecting an ECC-Space operation corresponding to the instruction received and executing the ECC-Space operation in a logic circuit in the memory device when the category of the instruction received is a category of memory PIM compatible instructions.

A device comprising:

• a memory operative to store an ECC encoded first data and an ECC encoded second data;
• a logic circuit in the memory configured to execute an ECC-Space operation related to an ECC algorithm, wherein the ECC-Space operation is translated from a two operands operation that is operative to transform a first data and a second data into a third data, and wherein the ECC-Space operation is operative to generate an ECC encoded output data from the ECC encoded first data and the ECC encoded second data;
• and
• wherein the ECC encoded first data is encoded from the first data with the ECC algorithm and the ECC encoded second data is encoded from the second data with the ECC algorithm, and wherein the ECC encoded output data is identical to a result of encoding the third data with the ECC algorithm.