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US 12,008,245 B2Granted
Method and device for hot swapping memory, and memory
AssigneeChangxin Memory Technologies, Inc.
InventorGuowei Huang
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Abstract
A method for hot swapping a memory includes the following: in response to a triggering operation of a replacement key of an abnormal memory, data on the abnormal memory is copied to an idle memory when a system is powered on; and the abnormal memory is powered off and replaced with a new memory after the data is copied; and in response to the triggering operation of a power on key of the new memory, the new memory is powered on. A method for hot swapping a memory in the case where a system is not powered off is provided.
Claims7
A memory, comprising
- a memory body, and a replacement key and a power on key arranged on the memory body, wherein
- the replacement key and the power on key are separately connected to a hub through an input/output interface;
- and the hub is configured to send a system management bus signal to a central processing unit (CPU) when level conversion occurs at the input/output interface;
- and
- the CPU is configured to power on or power off the memory after receiving the system management bus signal.
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