Patents by Inventor Marcin Nowicki

Marcin Nowicki has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Mechanism for implementing redundancy to mask failing SRAM
    Patent number: 7346815
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an apparatus to implement redundancy for failure masking in memory is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a built-in self test (BIST) log to store BIST data representing faulty columns of a memory, a redundancy configuration logic to generate one or more select signals based on the BIST data, an input shifter to map input data to one or more redundant columns of the memory, based on the one or more select signals, to avoid the faulty columns, and an output shifter to map output data from the one or more redundant columns of the memory, based on the one or more select signals, by bypassing the faulty columns. In one embodiment the memory is a static random access memory (SRAM). Other embodiments are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2008
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Marcin Nowicki
  • Mechanism for implementing redundancy to mask failing SRAM
    Publication number: 20060224933
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an apparatus to implement redundancy for failure masking in memory is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a built-in self test (BIST) log to store BIST data representing faulty columns of a memory, a redundancy configuration logic to generate one or more select signals based on the BIST data, an input shifter to map input data to one or more redundant columns of the memory, based on the one or more select signals, to avoid the faulty columns, and an output shifter to map output data from the one or more redundant columns of the memory, based on the one or more select signals, by bypassing the faulty columns. In one embodiment the memory is a static random access memory (SRAM). Other embodiments are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2005
    Publication date: October 5, 2006
    Inventor: Marcin Nowicki