Patent ID: 11907581
Assignee: INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 17:
18. A data storage device comprising:
a plurality of storage elements, each storage element of the plurality of storage elements configured for storing a piece of information, wherein:
the plurality of storage elements is:
accessible as a plurality of word sets, each word set of the plurality of word sets comprising a set of storage elements; and
accessible as a plurality of slice sets, each slice set of the plurality of slice sets comprising a set of storage elements; and

each storage element of the plurality of storage elements is a part of a word set of the plurality of word sets and a part of a slice set of the plurality of slice sets; and

a control unit configured for:
obtaining word information and slice information;
executing a write operation to parallelly write the word information into a first word set of the plurality of word sets and the slice information into a first slice set of the plurality of slice sets, wherein the first word set and the first slice set comprise a common storage element defined by an overlap of the first word set and the first slice set in a layout of the plurality of storage elements; and
for the write operation:
substituting a part of the slice information, that corresponds to the common storage element, with a corresponding part of the word information, the corresponding part of the word information corresponding to the common storage element; or
substituting a part of the word information, that corresponds to the common storage element, with a corresponding part of the slice information, the corresponding part of the slice information corresponding to the common storage element.