FIELD PROGRAMMABLE REDUNDANT MEMORY FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICES

FIELD PROGRAMMABLE REDUNDANT MEMORY FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICES

An electronic device is provided including an input/output (I/O) interface, a plurality of memory elements, a controller coupled to the I/O interface and the plurality of memory elements. In the device, the controller configured for operating the plurality of memory elements during a normal operatin...

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Hauptverfasser: DARILEK JOHN ANTHONY, YANCEY GREGORY CHARLES, O'MULLAN SEAN MICHAEL, SUNDAHL BRADLEY E, OLIVER ARTHUR BENJAMIN, PARKER ALLAN
Format: Patent
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
PHYSICS
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Zusammenfassung:An electronic device is provided including an input/output (I/O) interface, a plurality of memory elements, a controller coupled to the I/O interface and the plurality of memory elements. In the device, the controller configured for operating the plurality of memory elements during a normal operating mode of the electronic device, where responsive to receiving a command for replacing a selected memory sector in the electronic device during the normal operating mode, the controller is configured for identifying one or more available spare memory sectors in the electronic device and modifying at least one memory map in the electronic device to replace the selected memory sector with the one of the available spare memory sectors.