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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsMichele M. Franceschini, Ashish Jagmohan, Luis A. Lastras-Montano, Mayank Sharma
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Discarded memory devices unfit for an original purpose can be reclaimed for reuse for another purpose. The discarded memory devices are tested and evaluated to determine the level of performance degradation therein. A set of an alternate usage and an information encoding scheme to facilitate a reuse of the tested memory device is identified based on the evaluation of the discarded memory device. A memory chip controller may be configured to facilitate usage of reclaimed memory devices by enabling a plurality of encoding schemes therein. Further, a memory device can be configured to facilitate diagnosis of the functionality, and to facilitate usage as a discarded memory unit. Waste due to discarded memory devices can be thereby reduced.
A method of determining an application for reusing a discarded electronic device, said method comprising the steps of:
An apparatus for identifying an application for using a tested electronic device, said apparatus comprising:
A memory chip controller configured to be in communication with at least one memory device and comprising an electronic circuit capable of selecting one of at least two different coding methods, wherein said memory chip controller is configured to use one of said at least two coding methods on data that is communicated from, or to, each of said at least one memory device.
A memory device comprising at least one memory bank including an array of memory cells, wherein said memory device is configured to operate in at least two operational modes including a standard mode in which data in said at least one memory bank is communicated to another chip through an internal memory chip controller and a recycle mode in which the data in said at least one memory bank is communicated to another chip without passing through said internal memory chip controller.
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