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US07805645B2 Data processing apparatus and method for testing stability of memory cells in a memory device
有权
用于测试存储器件中存储器单元的稳定性的数据处理装置和方法
- 专利标题: Data processing apparatus and method for testing stability of memory cells in a memory device
- 专利标题(中): 用于测试存储器件中存储器单元的稳定性的数据处理装置和方法
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申请号: US12007578申请日: 2008-01-11
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公开(公告)号: US07805645B2公开(公告)日: 2010-09-28
- 发明人: Christophe Denis Lucien Frey , Nicolaas Klarinus Johannes van Winkelhoff
- 申请人: Christophe Denis Lucien Frey , Nicolaas Klarinus Johannes van Winkelhoff
- 申请人地址: GB Cambridge
- 专利权人: ARM Limited
- 当前专利权人: ARM Limited
- 当前专利权人地址: GB Cambridge
- 代理机构: Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.
- 主分类号: G11C29/00
- IPC分类号: G11C29/00

摘要:
A data processor includes a memory device having an array of memory cells for storing data values. Test circuitry executes one or more test patterns to detect any memory cells which may malfunction. Each test pattern causes a sequence of access requests to be issued to the memory device where the timing of the sequence is controlled by a test mode clock signal. Dummy read control circuitry is responsive at least to each write access request to generate an internal clock signal which has an increased frequency with respect to the test mode clock signal. The dummy read control circuitry performs, using the internal clock signal, a write operation to at least one memory cell based on a memory address specified by the write access request, followed by a dummy read operation to the same memory cell, serving to stress the memory cell with respect to cell stability.
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