US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Jan. 13 for "Built-in memory repair with repair code compression" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,314, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Built-in memory repair with repair code compression" was invented by Devanathan Varadarajan (Allen, Texas) and Varun Singh (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Circuits and methods are directed to repairable memory systems and memory repair processes. An example circuit includes first and second logic coupled together. The first logic receives a plurality of instances of defect data from a plurality of memories, respectively, in which each of the plurality of instances of defect data has a memory-specific format. The first logic converts each of the plu...