A Study on the VLSI Implementation of ECC for Embedded DRAM

Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 203-206

  Gao, W ^a   Simmons, S ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

DRAM; ECC circuitry; LUT; SEC DEC code; XOR tree

Indexed keywords

ALPHA PARTICLES; ARRAYS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSMIC RAYS; DYNAMIC RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; NEUTRONS; RANDOM ERRORS; ROM;

CODE LENGTH;

VLSI CIRCUITS;

EID: 0141453662     PISSN: 08407789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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