Patents by Inventor Ying Yu Tai

Ying Yu Tai 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).

  • Patent number: 11681442
    Abstract: An example method may include performing a first wear leveling operation on a group of data blocks based on a write counter associated with the group of data blocks, wherein the first wear leveling operation comprises including the group of data blocks in a plurality of groups of mapped data blocks, responsive to including the group of data blocks in the plurality of groups of mapped data blocks, performing a second wear leveling operation on the group of data blocks, wherein performing the second wear leveling operation comprises determining a base address of the group of data blocks, the base address indicating a location at which the group of data blocks begins, and accessing a data block in the group of data blocks based on the base address of the group of data blocks and a logical address associated with the data block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Fangfang Zhu, Jiangli Zhu, Ning Chen, Ying Yu Tai
  • Patent number: 11675714
    Abstract: An instruction can be received at a sequencer from a controller. The sequencer can be in a package including the sequencer and one or more memory components. The sequencer is operatively coupled to a controller that is separate from the package. A processing device of the sequencer can perform an operation based on the instruction on at least one of the one or more memory components in the package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Samir Mittal, Ying Yu Tai, Cheng Yuan Wu
  • Patent number: 11669275
    Abstract: A host operation to be performed can be received. Sub-operations that are associated with the received host operation can be determined. A memory component of multiple memory components can be identified for each sub-operation. Furthermore, each sub-operation can be transmitted to a media sequencer component that is associated with a respective memory component of the memory components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Jiangli Zhu, Cheng Yuan Wu, Ying Yu Tai
  • Patent number: 11632137
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a request for host data, receiving a codeword that is associated with the host data, performing a decoding operation for a first portion of the codeword to generate a segment of decoded data, determining whether the segment of the decoded data satisfies the request for the host data, and in response to determining that the segment of the decoded data satisfies the request for the host data, terminating the decoding operation for remaining portions of the codeword.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Tingjun Xie, Ying Yu Tai, Jiangli Zhu
  • Patent number: 11620085
    Abstract: A processing device, operatively coupled with a memory device, performs operations including receiving a write request from a host system at a first time, the write request identifying first data to be stored in a segment of the memory device, determining whether a pre-read voltage level of the write request satisfies a pre-read voltage level criterion pertaining to a write-to-write time interval for the segment, wherein the write-to-write time interval is defined by the first time and a second time corresponding to a last time at which the segment was written, and responsive to determining that the pre-read voltage level satisfies the pre-read voltage level criterion pertaining to the write-to-write time interval, performing a pre-read operation on the segment using the pre-read voltage level to determine second data currently stored in the segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Ying Yu Tai, Jiangli Zhu
  • Publication number: 20230097187
    Abstract: A memory sub-system periodically performs a first wear leveling operation using a direct mapping function on a data management unit of a memory component in the memory sub-system at a first frequency. The memory sub-system further periodically performs a second wear leveling operation using indirect mapping on a group of data management units of the memory component at a second frequency, wherein the second wear leveling operation is performed less frequently than the first wear leveling operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Ying Yu Tai, Jiangli Zhu, Ning Chen
  • Patent number: 11615214
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for cryptographic key management are described. A memory device can issue, by a firmware component, a command to generate a first cryptographic key for encrypting or decrypting user data stored on a memory device. The memory device can generate, by a hardware component, the first cryptographic key based on the command. The memory device can encrypt, by the hardware component, the first cryptographic key using a second cryptographic key and an initialization vector. The memory device can store the encrypted first cryptographic key in a nonvolatile memory device separate from the hardware component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Juane Li, Jiangli Zhu, Ying Yu Tai
  • Publication number: 20230070078
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for one or more clock domain crossing queues are described. A queue can receive, from a first clock domain, a first command to store data in the queue. The queue can store the data at a first location indicated by a first pointer. The queue can receive, from the first clock domain, a second command to cause the second clock domain to retrieve the data from the queue. The queue can generate, based on receiving the second command, a third command synchronized with a clock of the second clock domain and to cause the second clock domain to retrieve the data. The queue can retrieve the data from the first location in the queue indicated by a second pointer associated with retrieving data based at least in part on generating the third command. The queue can transmit, to the second clock domain, the data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: Yueh-Hung Chen, Chih-Kuo Kao, Ying Yu Tai, Jiangli Zhu
  • Publication number: 20230062189
    Abstract: A request to program a set of host data items to management units (MUs) of a fault tolerant stripe associated with a memory sub-system is received. A set of memory access operations to be executed at the MUs of the fault tolerant stripe in accordance with the received request is determined. The set of memory access operations include one or more read operations to read data from the MUs of the fault tolerant stripe. The set of memory access operations also include one or more write operations to write the set of host data items and redundancy metadata associated with the set of host data items to MUs of the fault tolerant stripe. A first series of commands corresponding to the one or more read operations of the set of memory access operations is executed. The redundancy metadata associated with the set of host data items is generated based on the data read from the MUs of the fault tolerant stripe during execution of the first series of commands and the set of host data items.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Fangfang Zhu, Chih-Kuo Kao, Jiangli Zhu, Ying Yu Tai
  • Patent number: 11587628
    Abstract: One or more write operations are performed on a memory component. First data stored at the memory component is read. A determination is made as to whether an error rate associated with the first data stored at the memory component exceeds an error rate threshold. If the error rate exceeds the error rate threshold, a threshold value is adjusted. A determination is made as to whether a number of the plurality of write operations performed on the memory component since performance of a refresh operation on the memory component exceeds the threshold value. In response to determining that the number of write operations performed on the memory component exceeds the threshold value, a memory cell of the memory component is identified based on the plurality of write operations. Second data stored at memory cells of the memory component that are proximate to the identified memory cell is refreshed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Fangfang Zhu, Jiangli Zhu, Ying Yu Tai
  • Patent number: 11567817
    Abstract: A processing device can determine a configuration parameter based on a memory type of a memory component that is managed by a memory system controller. The processing device can receive data from a host system. The processing device can generate, by performing a memory operation using the configuration parameter, an instruction based on the data. The processing device can identify a sequencer of a plurality of sequencers that are collocated, within a single package external to the memory system controller, wherein each sequencer of the plurality of sequencers interfaces with a respective memory component. The processing device can send the instruction to the sequencer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Samir Mittal, Ying Yu Tai, Cheng Yuan Wu
  • Publication number: 20230019910
    Abstract: Embodiments include methods, systems, devices, instructions, and media for limiting hot-cold swap wear leveling in memory devices. In one embodiment, wear metric values are stored and monitored using multiple wear leveling criteria. The multiple wear leveling criteria include a hot-cold swap wear leveling criteria, which may make use of a write count offset value. Based on a first wear metric value of a first management group and a second wear metric value of a second management group, the first management group and the second management group are selected for a wear leveling swap operation. The wear leveling swap operation is performed with a whole management group read operation of the first management group to read a set of data, and a whole management group write operation to write the set of data to the second management group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Fangfang Zhu, Ying Yu Tai, Ning Chen, Jiangli Zhu, Alex Tang
  • Patent number: 11550663
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed that are of retrieving, by a processing device, a codeword stored at a memory sub-system, determining parity data of the codeword, generating additional parity bits based on one or more bits of the parity data of the codeword, and generating host data by decoding the codeword using the additional parity bits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Tingjun Xie, Ying Yu Tai, Jiangli Zhu
  • Patent number: 11537307
    Abstract: A memory sub-system periodically performs a first wear leveling operation using a direct mapping function on a data management unit of a memory component in the memory sub-system at a first frequency. The memory sub-system further periodically performs a second wear leveling operation using indirect mapping on a group of data management units of the memory component at a second frequency, wherein the second wear leveling operation is performed less frequently than the first wear leveling operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Ying Yu Tai, Jiangli Zhu, Ning Chen
  • Publication number: 20220404969
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for performing an access operation on a memory cell, incrementing a value of a first counter based on performing the access operation on the memory cell, determining that the incremented value of the first counter satisfies a threshold, incrementing a value of a second counter based on determining that the incremented value of the first counter satisfies the threshold, and performing a maintenance operation on the memory cell based on determining that the incremented value of the first counter satisfies the threshold are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Ning Chen, Jiangli Zhu, Fangfang Zhu, Ying Yu Tai
  • Patent number: 11526395
    Abstract: A read operation to retrieve data stored at a memory device is performed. Whether the data retrieved from the memory device includes an error that is not correctable is determined. Responsive to determining that the data retrieved from the memory device comprises the error that is not correctable, a buffer in a data path along which a write operation was performed to write the data at the memory device is searched for the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Wei Wang, Jiangli Zhu, Ying Yu Tai, Ning Chen, Zhengang Chen, Cheng Yuan Wu
  • Patent number: 11481119
    Abstract: Embodiments include methods, systems, devices, instructions, and media for limiting hot-cold swap wear leveling in memory devices. In one embodiment, wear metric values are stored and monitored using multiple wear leveling criteria. The multiple wear leveling criteria include a hot-cold swap wear leveling criteria, which may make use of a write count offset value. Based on a first wear metric value of a first management group and a second wear metric value of a second management group, the first management group and the second management group are selected for a wear leveling swap operation. The wear leveling swap operation is performed with a whole management group read operation of the first management group to read a set of data, and a whole management group write operation to write the set of data to the second management group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Fangfang Zhu, Ying Yu Tai, Ning Chen, Jiangli Zhu, Alex Tang
  • Publication number: 20220326856
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for memory can include techniques for identifying first quantities of write counts for a first plurality of super management units (SMUs) in a mapped region of a memory sub-system, identifying, by a hardware component of the memory sub-system, a first SMU of the first plurality that includes a fewest quantity of write counts of the first quantity of write counts, and performing a wear-leveling operation based at least in part on a first quantity of write counts of the first SMU of the first plurality in the mapped region being less than a second quantity of writes counts of a second SMU of a second plurality of SMUs in an unmapped region of the memory sub-system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Fangfang Zhu, Wei Wang, Jiangli Zhu, Ying Yu Tai
  • Patent number: 11461030
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for one or more clock domain crossing queues are described. A queue can receive, from a first clock domain, a first command to store data in the queue. The queue can store the data at a first location indicated by a first pointer. The queue can receive, from the first clock domain, a second command to cause the second clock domain to retrieve the data from the queue. The queue can generate, based on receiving the second command, a third command synchronized with a clock of the second clock domain and to cause the second clock domain to retrieve the data. The queue can retrieve the data from the first location in the queue indicated by a second pointer associated with retrieving data based at least in part on generating the third command. The queue can transmit, to the second clock domain, the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Yueh-Hung Chen, Chih-Kuo Kao, Ying Yu Tai, Jiangli Zhu
  • Publication number: 20220308767
    Abstract: An example method may include performing a first wear leveling operation on a group of data blocks based on a write counter associated with the group of data blocks, wherein the first wear leveling operation comprises including the group of data blocks in a plurality of groups of mapped data blocks, responsive to including the group of data blocks in the plurality of groups of mapped data blocks, performing a second wear leveling operation on the group of data blocks, wherein performing the second wear leveling operation comprises determining a base address of the group of data blocks, the base address indicating a location at which the group of data blocks begins, and accessing a data block in the group of data blocks based on the base address of the group of data blocks and a logical address associated with the data block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Fangfang Zhu, Jiangli Zhu, Ning Chen, Ying Yu Tai