ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,654, issued on March 24, was assigned to Black Sesame Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"System and method for periodic march test in volatile memories" was invented by Qideng Yu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Gengyuan Zhang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Wei Chen (Milpitas, Calif.) and Ying Zhou (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a method for performing self-test on a memory. The method can include determining an operation mode of a memory built-in self-test (MBIST) unit based on status of the memory; in response to the operation mode being a startup mode, configuring the MBIST unit to perform a memory se...