On Jun 10, 2012, at 16:38, ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) wrote:
Any idea why a
16 bits system would have a 21 bit wide semiconductor memory. ?
ECC? Is 21 bits enough to detect and correct any signle-bit error?
Seems excessive... I seem to recall you need log2(n) - 1 bits, which would be 3 bits
(32-bit ECC needs 4 bits).
- Dave