Patents Examined by Cynthia Britt
  • Patent number: 11809220
    Abstract: Error detection and correction (EDAC) logic of a memory subsystem may be monitored for error corrections, with the EDAC logic configured to use a first EDAC level. The number of error corrections made by the EDAC logic while using the first EDAC level during a time interval may be determined. The EDAC logic may be switched from using the first EDAC level to using a second EDAC level when the number of error corrections using the first EDAC level during the time interval exceeds a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Deepak Kumar Agarwal, Kunal Desai, Jimit Shah, Rakesh Gehalot
  • Patent number: 11808810
    Abstract: In some examples, an integrated circuit comprises: a TDI input, a TDO output, a TCK input and a TMS input; a TAP state machine (TSM) having an input coupled to the TCK input, an input coupled to the TMS input, an instruction register control output, a TSM data register control (DRC) output, and a TSM state output; an instruction register having an input coupled to the TDI input, an output coupled to the TDO output, and a control input coupled to the instruction register control output of the TAP state machine; router circuitry including a TSM DRC input coupled to the TSM DRC output, a control DRC input coupled to the TSM state output, and a router DRC output; and a data register having an input coupled to the TDI input, an output coupled to the TDO output, and a data register DRC input coupled to the router DRC output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventor: Lee D. Whetsel
  • Patent number: 11811528
    Abstract: This application relates to the field of wireless communications technologies, and discloses an encoding method and apparatus, to improve accuracy of reliability calculation and ordering for polarized channels. The method includes: obtaining a first sequence used to encode K to-be-encoded bits, where the first sequence includes sequence numbers of N polarized channels, the first sequence is same as a second sequence or a subset of the second sequence, the second sequence comprises sequence numbers of Nmax polarized channels, and the second sequence is the sequence shown in Sequence Q11 or Table Q11, K is a positive integer, N is a positive integer power of 2, n is equal to or greater than 5, K?N, Nmax=1024; selecting sequence numbers of K polarized channels from the first sequence; and performing polar code encoding on K the to-be-encoded bits based on the selected sequence numbers of the K polarized channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Wang, Gongzheng Zhang, Huazi Zhang, Chen Xu, Lingchen Huang, Shengchen Dai, Hejia Luo, Yunfei Qiao, Rong Li, Jian Wang, Ying Chen, Nikita Polianskii, Mikhail Kamenev, Zukang Shen, Yourui HuangFu, Yinggang Du
  • Patent number: 11804925
    Abstract: A method for data transmission includes receiving a data stream from a host device, the data stream as received from the host device including encoded data, separating the encoded data in the data stream into first data blocks and second data blocks, and generating a first forward error correction (FEC) block. The first FEC block includes a first parity section and a first data section, the first parity section includes a first parity bit corresponding to the first data blocks and a second parity bit corresponding to the second data blocks, and the first data section includes the first data blocks and the second data blocks. The method further includes transmitting the first FEC block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Marvell Asia Pte Ltd.
    Inventors: Jamal Riani, Benjamin Smith, Volodymyr Shvydun, Sudeep Bhoja, Arash Farhoodfar
  • Patent number: 11804279
    Abstract: A program method of a nonvolatile memory device including a plurality of memory cells, each storing at least two bits of data, includes performing a first program operation based on a plurality of program voltages having a first pulse width to program first page data into selected memory cells connected to a selected word line among the plurality of memory cells; and performing a second program operation based on a plurality of program voltages having a second pulse width different from the first pulse width to program second page data into the selected memory cells in which the first page data is programmed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Boh-Chang Kim
  • Patent number: 11797385
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for managing information protection schemes in memory systems are described. A memory device may dynamically select an information protection scheme from a set of information protection schemes. In some examples, the memory device may identify a quantity of defective blocks in each plane associated with a control. The memory device may then identify a quantity of planes that satisfy a block threshold. In some cases, the memory device may select an information protection scheme using the quantity of planes. The information protection scheme may be an example of a redundant array of independent nodes scheme, and may indicate a quantity of planes used in performing a protected write operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Vincenzo Reina
  • Patent number: 11797396
    Abstract: An error recovery process provides for selecting a first recovery scheme for a decoding attempt on a first subset of a set of failed data blocks read from a data track; selecting a second different recovery scheme for a decoding attempt on a second subset of the set of failed data blocks read from the data track; and during a single revolution of the data track, performing operations to decode a first subset of the failed data blocks according to the first recovery scheme operations to decode the second subset of the failed data blocks according to the second different recovery scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventors: Deepak Sridhara, Jason Bellorado, Ara Patapoutian, Marcus Marrow
  • Patent number: 11797409
    Abstract: A method for managing transactions burstiness associated with a sequence of transactions generated in a test environment for verifying a Device Under Test (DUT) is disclosed. In some embodiments, the method includes processing a plurality of signals associated with a sequence of transactions. The method further includes generating a transactions burstiness signature representative of the sequence of transactions based on processing a set of signals from the plurality of signals. The method further includes analysing the transactions burstiness signature to identify at least one pattern of interest. The method further includes iteratively providing an input comprising at least one missing pattern of interest. The method further includes iteratively generating a subsequent sequence of transactions and a subsequent transactions burstiness signature associated with the subsequent sequence of transactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Inventors: Manickam Muthiah, Razi Abdul Rahim
  • Patent number: 11797376
    Abstract: A log of error events associated with a memory device is maintained. Each error event included in the log is associated with one of multiple physical locations within the memory device. A physical location within the memory device is identified for background scanning based on the log of error events. A background scan is performed on the physical location identified based on the log of error events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Anthony Stoller, Pitamber Shukla, Anita Marguerite Ekren
  • Patent number: 11796592
    Abstract: A synchronization circuit includes a first synchronizer, a second synchronizer, and selection circuitry. The first synchronizer is configured to synchronize a received signal to a clock signal. The second synchronizer is disposed in parallel with the first synchronizer and configured to synchronize the received signal to the clock signal. The selection circuitry is coupled to the first synchronizer and the second synchronizer. The selection circuitry is configured to provide an output value generated by the first synchronizer at an output terminal of the synchronization circuit based on the output value generated by the first synchronizer being the same as an output value generated by the second synchronizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Denis Roland Beaudoin, Samuel Paul Visalli
  • Patent number: 11798648
    Abstract: A memory system comprises a memory device including plural memory blocks, and a controller coupled to the memory device. The controller controls the memory device to read a first group including plural data items and a parity associated with the plural data items from first locations in the plural memory blocks. The controller generates a new parity when the plural data items and the parity include plural errors, substitute one of the plural errors with the new parity and another of the plural errors with dummy data. The controller controls the memory device to program a second group including the new parity and the dummy data in second locations in the plural memory blocks. The second locations are different from the first locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventor: In Jung
  • Patent number: 11797383
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes a redundant array of independent NAND for a three dimensional memory array. A number of embodiments include a three-dimensional array of memory cells, wherein the array includes a plurality of pages of memory cells, a number of the plurality of pages include a parity portion of a redundant array of independent NAND (RAIN) stripe, and the parity portion of the RAIN stripe in each respective page comprises only a portion of that respective page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Jung Sheng Hoei, Sampath K. Ratnam, Renato C. Padilla, Kishore K. Muchherla, Sivagnanam Parthasarathy, Peter Feeley
  • Patent number: 11791009
    Abstract: An error correction system includes M decoding units, each configured to perform decoding on the X first operation codes and the Y second operation codes; the decoding unit includes: a decoder, configured to receive the X first operation codes and output N first decoded signals, each corresponding to a respective one bit of the N data; a first AND gate unit, configured to receive and perform a logical AND operation on Z selected operation codes; an NOR gate unit, configured to receive and perform a logical NOR operation on (Y?Z) unselected operation codes; and N second AND gate units, each having an input terminal connected to an output terminal of the first AND gate unit, an output terminal of the NOR gate unit and one of the first decoded signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: CHANGXIN MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Kangling Ji
  • Patent number: 11789078
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a processing unit with a memory, a JTAG interface with test-data-input and test-mode-select lines coupled to the processing unit, a bridge circuit, and a multiplexer circuit. The bridge circuit includes a serial communication interface receiving a serial data input signal which conveys an input serial data frame. The bridge circuit includes a serial-to-parallel converter circuit block receiving the input serial data frame, processing the input serial data frame to read first and second subsets of input binary values therefrom, and transmitting the first subset via a first output signal and the second subset via a second output signal. The multiplexer circuit selectively propagates a received test-data-input signal or the first output signal to the test data input line, and selectively propagates a test-mode-select signal or the second output signal to the test mode select line of the JTAG interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
    Inventor: Filippo Minnella
  • Patent number: 11789077
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are method, system, and storage-medium embodiments for single-pass diagnosis of multiple chain defects in circuit-design testing. Embodiments include processor(s) to select a plurality of a scan chains in a circuit under test and determine presence of at least a first defect in the first scan chain, and a second defect in the first scan chain or in the second scan chain. The plurality of scan chains may include specific scan chains that each have respective pluralities of scan cells. Processor(s) may map the first defect to a first range of first scan cells, and the second defect to a second range of second scan cells. Based at least in part on a failing capture-pattern set, processor(s) may locate the first defect in a first scan cell of the first range, and the second defect in a second scan cell of the first range or the second range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Synopsys, Inc.
    Inventor: Emil Gizdarski
  • Patent number: 11789073
    Abstract: A scan test device includes a scan flip flop circuit and a clock gating circuit. The scan flip flop circuit is configured to receive a scan input signal according to a scan clock signal, and to output the received scan input signal to be a test signal. The clock gating circuit is configured to selectively mask the scan clock signal according to a predetermined bit of the test signal and a scan enable signal, in order to generate a test clock signal for testing at least one core circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
    Inventor: Po-Lin Chen
  • Patent number: 11791934
    Abstract: Provided is a communication device, including: a transmission and reception unit that transmits and receives a signal with an other communication device; an error detection unit that detects an occurrence of an error by having the transmission and reception unit receive a preamble specifying a type of data to be transmitted next, and comparing a bit sequence of a signal received following the preamble to a bit sequence that should be transmitted for the type specified for transmission by the preamble; and a conflict avoidance unit that, if the occurrence of an error is detected by the error detection unit, instructs the transmission and reception unit to transmit a clock corresponding to a certain number of bits following the preamble, and then transmit an abort signal giving an instruction to terminate communication partway through.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroo Takahashi, Takashi Yokokawa, Sonfun Lee, Naohiro Koshisaka
  • Patent number: 11784756
    Abstract: A memory access technology and a computer system, where the computer system includes a memory controller and a medium controller connected to the memory controller. In the computer system, when detecting that an error occurs in first data that is returned by the medium controller in response to a first send command, the memory controller determines sequence information of the first send command in a plurality of send commands that have been sent by the memory controller within a time period from a time point at which the first send command is sent to a current time, and sends a data retransmission command to the medium controller to instruct the medium controller to resend the first data based on the sequence information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shihai Xiao, Florian Longnos, Feng Yang
  • Patent number: 11784754
    Abstract: Improved techniques for recovering from an error condition without requiring a re-transmittal of data across a high-speed data link and for improved power usage are disclosed herein. A data stream is initiated. This stream includes different types of packets. Error correcting code (ECC) is selectively imposed on a control data type packet. A transmitter node and a receiver node are connected via a hard link that has multiple virtual channels. Each virtual channel is associated with a corresponding power-consuming node. When the receiver node receives the control data type packet, error correction is performed if needed without re-transmittal. When a final data type packet is transmitted for each virtual channel, the transmitter node transmits an end condition type packet. A corresponding power-consuming node that corresponds to the respective virtual channel transitions from an active state to a low power state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Ryan Scott Haraden, Christopher Michael Babecki
  • Patent number: 11768238
    Abstract: This disclosure describes a reduced pin bus that can be used on integrated circuits or embedded cores within integrated circuits. The bus may be used for serial access to circuits where the availability of pins on ICs or terminals on cores is limited. The bus may be used for a variety of serial communication operations such as, but not limited to, serial communication related test, emulation, debug, and/or trace operations of an IC or core design. Other aspects of the disclosure include the use of reduced pin buses for emulation, debug, and trace operations and for functional operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventor: Lee D. Whetsel