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US 2020/0089418 A1Published application
Memory having different reliabilities
AssigneeInfineon Technologies AG
InventorsThomas Kern, Michael Goessel, Albrecht Mayer
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Abstract
The disclosure proposes a circuit including a memory which has a multiplicity of memory cells, the memory having a first area and a second area, at least one memory cell comprising a part of the first area and a part of the second area, the first area having a lower reliability than the second area, and the circuit being set up in such a manner that first bits are stored in the first area and second bits are stored in the second area. A circuit for reading the memory and methods for writing to and reading the memory are also disclosed.
Claims20
A circuit, comprising:
- a memory which comprises a multiplicity of memory cells,
- wherein the memory comprises a first area and a second area,
- wherein at least one memory cell of the multiplicity of memory cells comprises a part of the first area and a part of the second area,
- wherein the first area has a lower reliability than the second area,
- wherein the circuit is configured such that first bits are stored in the first area and second bits are stored in the second area.
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