Patent ID: 11892906
Assignee: INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method for storing data bits having at least one byte-filling bit in memory cells, the method comprising:
coding, in the at least one-byte-filling bit, at least one predefined functionality for a subset of the data bits; and
storing the data bits in the memory cells,
wherein the data bits are grouped, together with check bits, into bytes, wherein at least one of these bytes can be corrected based on a byte error code, wherein the data bits and the check bits are stored in the memory cells,
wherein, in an error-free case, the data bits and the check bits represent a code word of the byte error code or are parts of a code word of the byte error code,
wherein the byte error code has N check bytes having check bits,
wherein a byte comprises m bits,
wherein there is a byte which has K byte-filling bits and m−K data bits,
wherein m is determined as a smallest positive integer so that

m·(2m−1)≥n+(N·m)+K 

where m≥3, 1≤K≤m−1, N≥2 and n>(N+2)·m, and
where n is a number of data bits.