US Patent 11841764 Circuit and method for reading ECC from memory

In an embodiment, a method includes: receiving, via control lines of a parallel interface of a memory device, a first command and a first read command including one or more bits indicative of a first selection that causes a selector circuit to select data from a data memory portion of the memory device; providing, via data lines of the parallel interface, first data from the data memory portion using the selector circuit, where the provided first data is associated with the first read command; receiving, via the control lines, a second command and a second read command including one or more bits indicative of a second selection that causes the selector circuit to select data from an ECC memory portion; and providing, via the data lines, first ECC values from the ECC memory portion using the selector circuit, where the first ECC values are associated with the first data.