What is Redundancy repair?

Replacing rows or columns that contain defective memory cells with spare rows or columns prepared in advance. The defect locations are found by testing and the switch is made with fuses or similar. It greatly improves yield.

Field: DRAM

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Questions that mention Redundancy repair (2)

  1. Which correctly describes redundancy repair, used to improve DRAM yield?
  2. In memory testing, what is the main purpose of making a map recording which bits at which addresses failed?

Related terms

Yield Wafer test (probe test) 1T1C cell Bank Bit line CAS latency DDR SDRAM DIMM ECC (error-correcting code) LPDDR

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