US Patent 7634696 System and method for testing memory

In some embodiments, a method for testing a memory having a plurality of bits is provided and includes initializing each value in a first register to zero. Next, each value in a second register is initialized to one. Further, each bit in the memory is initialized to zero. A logical OR operation is applied to each bit in the memory with a bit value as the first operand and a corresponding register value in the first register as the second operand. Additionally, the method includes initializing each bit in the memory to one. Also, a logical AND operation is applied to each bit in the memory with the bit value as the first operand and a corresponding register value as the second operand.