CPC G06F 11/1068 (2013.01) [G11C 29/52 (2013.01); G11C 11/161 (2013.01)] | 17 Claims |
1. A memory system, comprising:
a data memory;
an ECC memory; and
a data scrubbing circuit electrically coupled to the ECC memory and the data memory,
wherein the data scrubbing circuit is configured to:
receive a protect command for data; and
in response to receiving the protect command, for each data word in the data to be protected:
perform ECC encoding computation on the data word;
generate ECC check bits based on the ECC encoding computation; and
write the generated ECC check bits to a corresponding partition in the ECC memory.
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