| 摘要 |
<p>Error correction circuitry (101) attempts to detect and correct, on-the-fly, erroneous words from RAM (102) within a computer system. Correctable errors are scrubbed without delaying the memory access cycle. The address of the section or row of RAM containing the correctable error is latched (130) for later use by a firmware-implemented interrupt-driven scrub routine (104) that reads and rewrites each word within the indicated memory section, resulting in the erroneous word being corrected on-the-fly and rewritten correctly. If the memory section size exceeds a threshold, the scrub process is divided into smaller subprocesses that are distributed in time using a delayed interrupt mechanism. Subprocess duration is kept short enough to avoid impairing the computer system response time. System management interrupts (120) and firmware (104) make the scrub routine independent of and transparent to the operating systems that may be run on the computer system.</p> |
