Patent ID: 8677079
Filing Date: 2014-03-18
Classification: G11C,H03M

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for selecting a specific position from a plurality of positions in a memory to which data elements are cyclically written, a specific data element being stored in the plurality of positions, the apparatus comprising: a determination unit for determining whether the plurality of positions include any position in a specific area of the memory to which data elements are written in a single cycle, wherein the specific area is composed of positions at which data elements are writable before a data element is written at a current position in the single cycle; and a selection unit for selecting at least one position in the specific area out of the plurality of positions as the specific position if the determination unit determines that the plurality of positions include any position in the specific area, and for selecting at least one position out of the plurality of positions as the specific position if the determination unit determines that the plurality of positions do not include any position in the specific area.