US Patent Issued to XILINX on Feb. 17 for "DRAM controller with in-line ECC" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,578, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to XILINX INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"DRAM controller with in-line ECC" was invented by Ygal Arbel (Morgan Hill, Calif.), Jonathan Jasper (San Jose, Calif.) and Abbas Morshed (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit (IC) device includes processor circuitry configured to output a first memory command having a first memory address, and in-line error correction control (ILECC) circuitry configured to receive the first memory command output the first memory command to a memory device. The ILECC circuitry includes an error correction code (ECC) cache configured to store a f...