Patents by Inventor Glen E. Hush

Glen E. Hush has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20220108761
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for on-die testing for a memory device are described. In some examples, a memory die may include processing circuitry configured to perform evaluations of the memory die based on commands or instructions received from an external device. The processing circuitry may be configured to detect failures of the memory die and transmit related indications to the external device based on the on-die detection. In some examples, the processing circuitry may be configured to communicate failure information at a finer granularity than information associated with expected or nominal behavior. Additionally or alternatively, the processing circuitry may be configured to perform operations according to an internally-generated clock signal that operates at a faster rate or speed than a clock signal from the external device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventors: David W. Overgaard, Andrew P. Lyle, Glen E. Hush, Timothy P. Finkbeiner, Kristopher J. Kopel, Jonathan D. Harms
  • Patent number: 11282563
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods for performing operations by a memory device in a self-refresh state. An example includes an array of memory cells and a controller coupled to the array of memory cells. The controller is configured to direct performance of compute operations on data stored in the array when the array is in a self-refresh state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Perry V. Lea, Glen E. Hush
  • Patent number: 11270756
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods related to row hammer mitigation in, for example, a memory device or a computing system that includes a memory device. Data from a group of memory cells of a memory array can be latched in sensing circuitry responsive to a determination of a hammering event associated with the group of memory cells. Thereafter, the data can be accessed from the sensing circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Glen E. Hush, Richard C. Murphy, Honglin Sun
  • Patent number: 11269648
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods for organizing bits in a memory device are described. In a number of embodiments, an apparatus can include an array of memory cells, a data interface, a multiplexer coupled between the array of memory cells and the data interface, and a controller coupled to the array of memory cells, the controller configured to cause the apparatus to latch bits associated with a row of memory cells in the array in a number of sense amplifiers in a prefetch operation and send the bits from the sense amplifiers, through a multiplexer, to a data interface, which may include or be referred to as DQs. The bits may be sent to the DQs in a particular order that may correspond to a particular matrix configuration and may thus facilitate or reduce the complexity of arithmetic operations performed on the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Glen E. Hush, Aaron P. Boehm, Fa-Long Luo
  • Patent number: 11256427
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods related to mitigating unauthorized memory access are described. Mitigating unauthorized memory access can include verifying whether an access command is authorized to access a protected region of a memory array. The authorization can be verified utilizing a key and a memory address corresponding to the access command. If an access command is authorized to access a protected region, then a row of the memory array corresponding to the access command can be activated. If an access command is not authorized to access the protected region, then a row of the memory array corresponding to the access command may not be activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard C. Murphy, Shivam Swami, Naveh Malihi, Anton Korzh, Glen E. Hush
  • Publication number: 20220035571
    Abstract: The present disclosure is related to performing speculation in, for example, a memory device or a computing system that includes a memory device. Speculation can be used to identify data that is accessed together or to predict data that will be accessed with greater frequency. The identified data can be organized to improve efficiency in providing access to the data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Richard C. Murphy, Glen E. Hush, Honglin Sun
  • Publication number: 20220027297
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods related to a computing tile are described. The computing tile may perform operations on received data to extract some of the received data. The computing tile may perform operations without intervening commands. The computing tile may perform operations on data streamed through the computing tile to extract relevant data from data received by the computing tile. In an example, the computing tile is configured to receive a command to initiate an operation to reduce a size of a block of data from a first size to a second size. The computing tile can then receive a block of data from a memory device coupled to the apparatus. The computing tile can then perform an operation on the block of data to extract predetermined data from the block of data to reduce a size of the block of data from a first size to a second size.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Richard C. Murphy, Glen E. Hush, Vijay Ramesh, Allan Porterfield, Anton Korzh
  • Publication number: 20220027079
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods can be related to implementing edge compute components in a memory array. Compute components can be implemented under a memory array. Implementing compute components under a memory array can limit control access to the compute components due to die space utilized by the compute components. A portion of the compute components (e.g., compute components on the edge) may have control access that is not available to the remainder of the compute components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Glen E. Hush, Richard C. Murphy, Honglin Sun
  • Publication number: 20220012193
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods can be related to configuring interface protocols for memory. An interface protocol can define the commands received by a memory device utilizing transceivers, receivers, and/or transmitters of an interface of a memory device. An interface protocol used by a memory device can be implemented utilizing a decoder of signals provided via a plurality of transceivers of the memory device. The decoder utilized by a memory device can be selected by setting a mode register of the memory device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Glen E. Hush, Richard C. Murphy, Honglin Sun
  • Patent number: 11222669
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods related to performing operations within a memory device are described. Such operations may be performed using data latched in multiple sense amplifiers that are distributed among a plurality of sense amplifiers of the memory device. For example, those sense amplifiers, among the plurality of sense amplifiers, storing data associated with the operation(s) can be determined, and the data can be selectively sent from the determined sense amplifiers to an operation unit, in which the operations are performed. The operations may be made without affecting a subsequent read command that requests data from the plurality of sense amplifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Glen E. Hush, Honglin Sun, Richard C. Murphy
  • Publication number: 20210407562
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to performing logical operations using sensing circuitry. An example apparatus comprises an array of memory cells and sensing circuitry coupled to the array of memory cells. The sensing circuitry includes a primary latch and a secondary latch. The primary latch is coupled to a pair of complementary sense lines and selectively coupled to a pair of adjacent complementary sense lines. The secondary latch is selectively coupled to the primary latch. The primary latch and secondary latch are configured to shift a data value between the pair of adjacent complementary sense lines and the primary latch. The primary latch and secondary latch are configured to shift the data value from the pair of adjacent complementary sense lines without activating a row line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventor: Glen E. Hush
  • Publication number: 20210406087
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods related to memory pooling between selected memory resources are described. A system using a memory pool formed as such may enable performance of functions, including automated functions critical for prevention of damage to a product, personnel safety, and/or reliable operation, based on increased access to data that may improve performance of a mission profile. For instance, one apparatus described herein includes a memory resource, a processing resource coupled to the memory resource, and a transceiver resource coupled to the processing resource. The memory resource, the processing resource, and the transceiver resource are configured to enable formation of a memory pool between the memory resource and another memory resource at another apparatus responsive to a request to access the other memory resource transmitted from the processing resource via the transceiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Aaron P. Boehm, Glen E. Hush, Fa-Long Luo
  • Publication number: 20210407615
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for modifiable repair solutions for a memory array are described to support storing repair information for a memory array within the memory array itself. A memory device may include the memory array and an on-die microprocessor, where the microprocessor may retrieve the repair information from the memory array and write the repair information to repair circuitry used for identifying defective memory addresses. The microprocessor may support techniques for identifying additional defects and updating the repair information during operation of the memory array. For example, the microprocessor may identify additional defects based on errors associated with one or more memory cells of the memory array or based on testing performed on one or more memory cells of the memory array. In some cases, a host device may identify additional defects and may notify the microprocessor of the additional defects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Troy A. Manning, Troy D. Larsen, Jonathan D. Harms, Glen E. Hush, Timothy P. Finkbeiner
  • Publication number: 20210365205
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes systems, apparatuses and methods related to maintaining data in a sorted order in a memory array to improve access time to data in the memory array and directing access to a row of data in cache based upon an address associated with the data. In a number of embodiments, a number of keys that are stored in a first row of an index table can be split between the first row and a second row in response to the first row being full, where the number of keys are copied to the second row and a first portion of the number of keys remain in the first row and a second portion of the number of keys are moved to the second row.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Harold Robert G. Trout, Troy D. Larsen, Timothy P. Finkbeiner, Troy A. Manning, Glen E. Hush
  • Publication number: 20210365360
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and systems related to mapping a virtual address using a content addressable memory (CAM) are described. In a memory system including a memory and a content addressable memory (CAM), a select line of the CAM can be coupled to a corresponding select line of the memory, which allows the memory system to map a virtual address of a memory device directly to the corresponding select line of the memory. An example method can include receiving, from a host at a memory device comprising a memory array and a content addressable memory (CAM), a first virtual address to be searched among virtual addresses stored within the CAM, identifying, in response to receipt of the first virtual address, a select line of a plurality of select lines of the CAM associated with a second virtual address matching the first virtual address, and activating, in response to identifying the select line of the CAM, a corresponding select line of the memory coupled to the identified select line of the CAM.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Harold Robert G. Trout, Troy D. Larsen, Timothy P. Finkbeiner, Glen E. Hush, Troy A. Manning
  • Publication number: 20210366553
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods related to organizing data to correspond to a matrix at a memory device are described. Data can be organized by circuitry coupled to an array of memory cells prior to the processing resources executing instructions on the data. The organization of data may thus occur on a memory device, rather than at an external processor. A controller coupled to the array of memory cells may direct the circuitry to organize the data in a matrix configuration to prepare the data for processing by the processing resources. The circuitry may be or include a column decode circuitry that organizes the data based on a command from the host associated with the processing resource. For example, data read in a prefetch operation may be selected to correspond to rows or columns of a matrix configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Glen E. Hush, Aaron P. Boehm, Fa-Long Luo
  • Publication number: 20210365188
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes systems, apparatuses and methods related to maintaining data in a sorted order in a memory array to improve access time to data in the memory array and directing access to a row of data in cache based upon an address associated with the data. In a number of embodiments, data stored in tables in sorted order can allow access to data based on upon the keys and/or the sorted order of the data, which can increase access times to data the memory array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Harold Robert G. Trout, Glen E. Hush, Troy A. Manning, Timothy P. Finkbeiner, Troy D. Larsen
  • Publication number: 20210365268
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for operational code storage for an on-die microprocessor are described. A microprocessor may be formed on-die with a memory array. Operating code for the microprocessor may be stored in the memory array, possibly along with other data (e.g., tracking or statistical data) used or generated by the on-die microprocessor. A wear leveling algorithm may result in some number of rows within the memory array not being used to store user data at any given time, and these rows may be used to store the operating code and possibly other data for the on-die microprocessor. The on-die microprocessor may boot and run based on the operating code stored in memory array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Troy A. Manning, Jonathan D. Harms, Troy D. Larsen, Glen E. Hush, Timothy P. Finkbeiner
  • Publication number: 20210365383
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for mapping a virtual address using a CAM are described. A parallel structure of a CAM can enable functions of a MMU to be integrated into a single operation performed using the CAM such that a virtual address of a memory array can be mapped directly to a row of a memory. An example method includes receiving an access command and address information for a memory array; identifying a virtual address and a physical address of the memory array based on the received address information; comparing, during a time period associated with the access command, the virtual address and the physical address to virtual addresses and physical addresses, respectively, of the memory array stored in a CAM; and accessing, during the time period, a row of the memory array coupled to a row of the CAM storing the virtual address and the physical address.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Harold Robert G. Trout, Timothy P. Finkbeiner, Troy A. Manning, Glen E. Hush, Troy D. Larsen
  • Publication number: 20210365363
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and systems related to mapping a virtual address using a physical address are described. In a memory system including a memory (e.g., cache) and a content addressable memory (CAM), the CAM can be configured to search data requested by a host from the memory based on multiple indicators stored in the CAM. For example, in the event that the data stored in the memory is not searchable based on a particular indicator such as a virtual address of a memory array (e.g., main memory), the CAM be configured to search the data based on another indicator such as a physical address of the memory array. Searching the data based on multiple indicators can resolve a synonym problem.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Harold Robert G. Trout, Glen E. Hush, Troy A. Manning, Troy D. Larsen, Timothy P. Finkbeiner