System and method for protecting data

A computer program product residing on a computer readable medium having a plurality of instructions stored thereon which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

• receiving encoded data for decoding from a memory module, wherein the encoded data includes:
• core data, and
• parity data based, at least in part, upon the core data;
• and
• decoding the encoded data to confirm integrity of the encoded data, wherein decoding the encoded data includes:
• generating a failure mask based, at least in part, upon performing a CRC operation on the core data and performing XOR operations on the core data and a result of the CRC operation,
• if the failure mask does not match the parity data, performing an XOR-based trial process to compare the failure mask to a plurality of portions of the encoded data to locate data corruption, and
• if the failure mask does not indicate data corruption, performing a CRC-based corruption check to determine if the encoded data includes corrupt data;
• and
• wherein the plurality of portions of the encoded data were stored within a plurality of memory dies within the memory module.

A computing system including a processor and memory configured to perform operations comprising:

• generating encoded data within a memory module, wherein generating encoded data includes:
• performing a CRC operation on core data to generate CRC value, and
• performing an XOR operation on the core data and the CRC value to generate parity data;
• and
• decoding the encoded data to confirm integrity of the encoded data.