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High-efficiency BIRA for embedded memories with a high repair rate and low area overhead

  • Lee, Joo-Hwan (Graduate School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University) ;
  • Park, Ki-Hyun (Graduate School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University) ;
  • Kang, Sung-Ho (Graduate School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University)
  • Received : 2011.09.21
  • Published : 2012.09.30

Abstract

High-efficiency built-in redundancy analysis (BIRA) is presented. The proposed BIRA uses three techniques to achieve a high repair rate using spare mapping registers with adjustable fault tags to reduce area overhead. Simulation results show that the proposed BIRA is a reasonable solution for embedded memories.

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