Including Specified Plural Element Logic Arrangement Patents (Class 365/189.08)
  • Patent number: 11953934
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments relate to a memory system that generates a multiplied timing signal from a reference timing signal. During operation, the system receives a reference timing signal. Next, the system produces a multiplied timing signal from the reference timing signal by generating a burst comprising multiple timing events for each timing event in the reference timing signal, wherein consecutive timing events in each burst of timing events are separated by a bit time. Then, as the reference clock frequency changes, the interval between bursts of timing events changes while the bit time remains substantially constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Rambus Inc.
    Inventor: Frederick A. Ware
  • Patent number: 11948624
    Abstract: A column in a memory array includes one bit cell circuit in each row for storing information about the row. The bit cell circuits store data in a data node and a complement data node in a cross-coupled inverter circuit. Toggling the nodes in a cross-coupled inverter includes discharging a charged node in contention with a charge current provided in the cross-coupled inverter circuit. The column circuit includes a first voltage supply circuit to decouple the cross-coupled inverter circuits from a first voltage rail to cut off charging current in response to a column set signal in a column set operation. The cross-coupled inverters of the bit cell circuits in the column circuit are coupled to a first voltage supply line. The column set input controls the first voltage supply circuit to decouple the first voltage supply line from a first voltage rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Sai Prakash Reddy Bijivemula, Rajesh Kumar
  • Patent number: 11929109
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are related to a memory system including unit storage circuits. In one aspect, each of the unit storage circuits abuts an adjacent one of the unit storage circuits. In one aspect, each of the unit storage circuits includes a first group of memory cells, a second group of memory cells, a first sub-word line driver to apply a first control signal to the first group of memory cells through a first sub-word line extending along a direction, and a second sub-word line driver to apply a second control signal to the second group of memory cells through a second sub-word line extending along the direction. In one aspect, the memory system includes a common word line driver abutting one of the unit storage circuits and configured to apply a common control signal to the unit storage circuits through a word line extending along the direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yi-Tzu Chen, Ching-Wei Wu, Hau-Tai Shieh, Hung-Jen Liao
  • Patent number: 11908544
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for setting a duty cycler adjuster for improving clock duty cycle are disclosed. The duty cycle adjuster may be adjusted by different amounts, at least one smaller than another. Determining when to use the smaller adjustment may be based on duty cycle results. A duty cycle monitor may have an offset. A duty cycle code for the duty cycle adjuster may be set to an intermediate value of a duty cycle monitor offset. The duty cycle monitor offset may be determined by identifying duty cycle codes for an upper and for a lower boundary of the duty cycle monitor offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Inventor: Kang-Yong Kim
  • Patent number: 11881262
    Abstract: A Resistive random access memory (ReRAM) comprising: an array (M1) of cells (Cij) each connected to a first supply line (SL) set at a first supply potential, each cell being provided with a resistive element (1, 2) and a selection transistor (Ms1, Ms2), a read circuit (400) associated with a given row of cells and comprising a sense amplifier (440) of the latch type connected to a second supply line (45) set at a second supply potential, the device further comprising: a circuit for controlling read operations configured to during a reading: apply to said first bit line (BL0) a potential equal to said first supply potential (GND, VDD) while isolating the first bit line (BL0) from said sense amplifier (440), then, couple the first bit line (BL0) to said sense amplifier (440).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventor: Francois Rummens
  • Patent number: 11881258
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an apparatus including: a sense amplifier coupled to a memory array and having a set of output terminals, a latch coupled to a first output terminal of the sense amplifier, and a comparator coupled to the latch and a second output terminal of the sense amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: GlobalFoundries U.S. Inc.
    Inventors: Ramesh Raghavan, Balaji Jayaraman, Chandrahasa Reddy Dinnipati
  • Patent number: 11776600
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for memory clock management and estimation procedures are described. A host device may determine a quantity of clock cycles associated with a duration for accessing a memory cell of a memory array based on truncating a value of a first parameter associated with another duration for a clock to perform a clock cycle. The host device may estimate a value of a second parameter related to (e.g., inversely proportional) to the truncated value of the first parameter and related to (e.g., directly proportional) to a correction factor, and may adjust (e.g., truncate) a third parameter to determine the quantity of clock cycles. Additionally or alternatively, the host device may adjust (e.g., perform a ceiling operation on) the second parameter to determine the quantity of clock cycles. The host device may access the memory cell based on the quantity of clock cycles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Erik V. Pohlmann, Neal J. Koyle
  • Patent number: 11763880
    Abstract: Various implementations described herein are related to a device having memory architecture having multiple bitcell arrays. The device may include column multiplexer circuitry coupled to the memory architecture via multiple bitlines for read access operations. The column multiplexer circuitry may perform read access operations in the multiple bitcell arrays via the bitlines based on a sense amplifier enable signal and a read multiplexer signal. The device may include control circuitry that provides the read multiplexer signal to the column multiplexer circuitry based on a clock signal and the sense amplifier enable signal so that the column multiplexer circuitry is able to perform the read access operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Arm Limited
    Inventors: Lalit Gupta, Fakhruddin Ali Bohra, Shri Sagar Dwivedi, Vidit Babbar
  • Patent number: 11756621
    Abstract: A search pattern is generated based on an input search word comprising a first sequence of bits. The search pattern comprises a first set of signals representing the input search word and a second set of signals representing a second sequence of bits comprising an inverse of the first sequence of bits. The search pattern is provided as input to search lines of a content addressable memory (CAM) block. The search pattern causes at least one string in the CAM block to be conductive and provide a signal to a page buffer connected to the string in response to the input search word matching a data entry stored on the string. A location of the data entry is determined based on data read from the page buffer and the location is output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Tomoko Ogura Iwasaki, Manik Advani
  • Patent number: 11748274
    Abstract: A memory device includes a memory array and a memory controller. The memory array includes a first memory bank, a second memory bank, and a third memory bank. The first memory bank includes a first sub memory bank. The second memory bank includes a second sub memory bank. The memory controller, according to a write command from a host, writes first data from the host to the first memory bank and second data to the second memory bank at the same time, and writes a first Hamming weight of the first data to the third memory bank. The second data is the inverse of the first data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yu-Shan Li
  • Patent number: 11714607
    Abstract: A four-input lookup table (“LUT4”) is modified to operate in a first mode as an ordinary LUT4 and in a second mode as a 1-bit adder providing a sum output and a carry output. A six-input lookup table (“LUT6”) is modified to operate in a first mode as an ordinary LUT6 with a single output and in a second mode as a 2-bit adder providing a sum output and a carry output. Both possible results for the two different possible carry inputs can be determined and selected between when the carry input is available, implementing a 2-bit carry-select adder when in the second mode and retaining the ability to operate as an ordinary LUT6 in the first mode. Using the novel LUT6 design in a circuit chip fabric allows a 2-bit adder slice to be built that efficiently makes use of the LUT6 without requiring additional logic blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Achronix Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher LaFrieda, Virantha Ekanayake
  • Patent number: 11705166
    Abstract: A memory device includes; a first memory chip including a first on-die Termination (ODT) circuit comprising a first ODT resistor, a second memory chip including a second ODT circuit comprising a second ODT resistor, at least one chip enable signal pin that receives at least one chip enable signal, wherein the at least one chip enable signal selectively enables at least one of the first memory chip and the second memory chip, and an ODT pin commonly connected to the first memory chip and the second memory chip that receives an ODT signal, wherein the ODT signal defines an enable period for at least one of the first ODT circuit and the second ODT circuit, and in response to the ODT signal and the at least one chip enable signal, one of the first ODT resistor and the second ODT resistor is enabled to terminate a signal received by at least one of the first memory chip and the second memory chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eun-Ji Kim, Jung-June Park, Jeong-Don Ihm, Byung-Hoon Jeong, Young-Don Choi
  • Patent number: 11698730
    Abstract: A data storage method, apparatus, and device, and a readable storage medium. The method includes: after a random access memory is powered on, obtaining target data to be stored in a fixed storage address of the random access memory; determining a target transmission mode from a bit value change transmission mode and a bit value fixed transmission mode, wherein the target transmission mode is different from a historical transmission mode determined after the random access memory is powered on last time; and transmitting the target data from and to the random access memory according to the target transmission mode. The method can prevent data from being stolen after power-down of the target data, and guarantees the data security.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: INSPUR ELECTRONIC INFORMATION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dongdong Jiang, Yaqian Zhao, Gang Dong, Rengang Li, Haiwei Liu, Hongbin Yang, Chen Li
  • Patent number: 11693584
    Abstract: A word line control method, a word line control circuit device, and a semiconductor memory are provided. The method includes: acquiring a row address input signal; acquiring a test mode signal; performing logical and decoding operations on the row address input signal and the test mode signal to generate a row address control signal, wherein the row address control signal includes at least two valid activation signals; and simultaneously activating at least two non-adjacent word lines based on the at least two valid activation signals. The row address control signal obtained allows simultaneous activation of at least two non-adjacent word lines. Since none of any two non-adjacent word lines share a common contact area, a test will not be affected by the disconnection of a contact area or the presence of high impedance, thus improving test accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Changxin Memory Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Liang Zhang
  • Patent number: 11671142
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure utilizes the natural properties of RFI noise on a wireline link. Since differential RFI noise in the system has some correlation with the common mode noise on the cable, a replica of RFI noise can be regenerated by an adaptive filter based on information about the common mode noise. The replica RFI is subtracted from the equalizer output prior to the data decision circuitry or slicer. In this method, the system does not require expensive cable, nor does the equalizer suffer additional loss due to an RFI notch filter. Since RFI can be detected and mitigated, this information can also be coupled to safety systems to increase functional safety under high EMI conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Axonne Inc.
    Inventors: William Lo, Hiroshi Takatori, Kenneth Thet Zin Oo
  • Patent number: 11636315
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a synapse circuit includes: a buffer that changes an output signal to a second logical value at a timing when an input signal exceeds a first threshold level, in a case where the output signal has a first logical value in a first mode, and changes the output signal to the second logical value at a timing when the input signal exceeds a reference level lower than the first threshold level, in a case where the output signal has the first logical value in a second mode; an adjusting unit that adjusts the first threshold level depending on a stored coefficient; and a mode switching unit that operates the buffer in the first mode during a period in which an acquired spike is not generated, and operates the buffer in the second mode during a period in which the spike is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Takao Marukame, Kumiko Nomura, Yoshifumi Nishi
  • Patent number: 11604714
    Abstract: A memory device includes a path state check circuit configured to check states of signal transmission paths, each signal transmission path including a data transmission path and a clock transmission path of the memory device. The path state check circuit includes a sampling circuit configured to perform a sampling operation by using pattern data that has passed through the data transmission path and a clock signal that has passed through the clock transmission path, and generate sample data, and a management circuit configured to generate a comparison of the sample data with the pattern data and manage check result information indicating whether a re-training operation for the memory device is to be performed, based on a result of the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co, Ltd.
    Inventors: Won-joo Jung, Jang-woo Lee, Byung-hoon Jeong, Jeong-don Ihm
  • Patent number: 11599306
    Abstract: A memory device includes a data storage circuit configured to access a cell array having first data stored therein when an arithmetic active operation is performed, output the first data when a first read operation is performed, access a cell array having second data stored therein when an active operation is performed, and output the second data when a second read operation is performed. The memory device also includes an arithmetic circuit configured to receive latch data generated through the first read operation and read data generated through the second read operation, and perform an arithmetic operation on the latch data and the read data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventor: Yo Sep Lee
  • Patent number: 11572081
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating a self-propelled motor vehicle having a plurality of control units and a plurality of program codes for controlling the function of autonomous driving and possibly other functions of the self-propelled vehicle, wherein a plurality of program codes used for an autonomous driving mode are redundantly applied to at least two different control units. In doing so, the self-propelled motor vehicle is operated in an at least partially autonomous driving mode. In this mode, the functions directly needed to satisfy the passenger's wishes are ascertained and weighted corresponding to their relevance for satisfying the passenger's wishes. In so doing, the functions, or the scope of functions, are released depending on the achievement of a target achievement level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Tobias Kain, Maximilian Wesche, Hendrik Decke, Julian-Steffen Müller, Fabian Plinke, Andreas Braasch, Johannes Heinrich, Timo Horeis
  • Patent number: 11537319
    Abstract: A processing system includes a content addressable memory (CAM) in an input/output path to selectively modify register writes on a per-pipeline basis. The CAM compares an address of a register write to an address field of each entry of the CAM. If a match is found, the CAM modifies the register write data as defined by a function for the matching entry of the CAM. In some embodiments, each entry of the CAM includes a data mask defining subfields of the register write data, wherein each subfield includes subfield data including one or more bits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Alexander Fuad Ashkar, James R. Klobcar, Harry J. Wise
  • Patent number: 11532353
    Abstract: According to one implementation of the present disclosure, an integrated circuit comprises a memory macro unit that includes an input/output (I/O) circuit block, where read/write circuitry of the I/O circuit block is apportioned on at least first and second tiers of the memory macro unit. In a particular implementation, read circuitry of the read/write circuitry is arranged on the first tier and write circuitry of the read/write circuitry is arranged on the second tier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Arm Limited
    Inventors: Mudit Bhargava, Rahul Mathur, Andy Wangkun Chen
  • Patent number: 11443788
    Abstract: Some embodiments include an integrated assembly having a memory region with memory cells and sense/access lines configured for addressing the memory cells, and having a reference-voltage-generator proximate to the memory region. The reference-voltage-generator includes resistive units configured substantially identically to the sense/access lines. Some embodiments include an integrated assembly having a memory region with memory cells, digit lines and wordlines. Each of the memory cells is uniquely addressed with one of the wordlines in combination with one of the digit lines. The wordlines are coupled with driver circuitry and the digit lines are coupled with sensing circuitry. A reference-voltage-generator is proximate to the memory region. The reference-voltage-generator includes resistive units configured substantially identically to the wordlines and/or includes resistive units configured substantially identically to the digit lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Takamasa Suzuki, Yasuo Satoh, Yuan He, Hyunui Lee
  • Patent number: 11367476
    Abstract: Bit line equalization driver circuits and related apparatuses, methods, and computing systems are disclosed. An apparatus includes an output inverter including a pull-up transistor and a pull-down transistor electrically connected in series between a pull-up node and a pull-down node. An output node is electrically connected between the pull-up transistor and the pull-down transistor. The pull-down transistor includes a short length transistor having a degradation voltage potential across the pull-down transistor below which the pull-down transistor is configured to operate to avoid degradation of the pull-down transistor. The apparatus also includes biasing circuitry configured to control voltage potentials at the pull-up node and the pull-down node to enable the output inverter to assert, at the output node, an output voltage potential that is greater than the degradation voltage potential higher than a low power supply voltage potential at the low power supply node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Sang-Kyun Park, Yuan He
  • Patent number: 11361815
    Abstract: A memory device includes a plurality of memory banks and a sensing delay circuit. Each of the memory banks is activated by a row active command and is configured to perform a sensing operation based on a sensing enable signal. The sensing delay circuit, that includes a shared delay circuit and a delay path control circuitry, may delay a start of the sensing enable signal by a sensing delay period from an assertion of the row active command. The shared delay circuit is shared to the memory banks and may generate a plurality of delay signals based on the assertion of the row active command. The delay path control circuitry configured to control an electrical path between the shared delay circuit and the memory banks based on the row active command and the plurality of delay signals to output the sensing enable signal to the memory bank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Winbond Electronics Corp.
    Inventor: Sangho Shin
  • Patent number: 11237929
    Abstract: A redundant array of independent disks (RAID) management method includes, when detecting that a component in a storage medium fails, recovering, based on a RAID policy, data stored in the failed component, saving the recovered data into a pre-defined redundant space of the RAID, and mapping an address of the failed component with the address of the redundant space, converting, according to the mapping, an address of to-be-accessed data comprised in an accessing request into an address within the redundant space, and accessing the to-be-accessed data from the redundant space according to the address within the redundant space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jianhua Zhou, Meng Zhou
  • Patent number: 11194656
    Abstract: A memory system includes a non-volatile memory and a controller that includes a toggle encoder configured to encode first data having a first bit length and a first number of toggles, into second data having a second bit length longer than the first bit length and a second number of toggles smaller than the first number of toggles, and transmit the second data to the non-volatile memory. The memory system may further include a toggle decoder configured to decode third data received from the non-volatile memory into fourth data, the third data having the second bit length and the second number of toggles and the fourth data having the first bit length and the first number of toggles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: KIOXIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunichi Igahara, Yoshihisa Kojima, Takehiko Amaki, Suguru Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 11144301
    Abstract: Executable code is part of an over-the-air (OTA) update received by, for example, a computing device in a vehicle. In one example, the update is a secure over-the-air (SOTA) update of software that is stored in firmware of a vehicle component (e.g., firmware stored in memory of a storage device or a boot device that are mounted in a vehicle).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Alberto Troia, Robert Richard Noel Bielby
  • Patent number: 10969977
    Abstract: An integrated circuit die element comprises one or more field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) elements; a reconfigurable dual function memory array, the reconfigurable dual function memory array including a plurality of reconfigurable memory array blocks, each reconfigurable memory array block being capable of configuration and reconfiguration as a storage memory array block or as a control logic array block for controlling at least a portion of the one or more FPGA elements; and a control logic circuit functioning to configure each reconfigurable memory array block as the respective memory array block or as the respective logic array block for controlling the one or more FPGA elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Arbor Company, LLLP
    Inventors: Darrel James Guzy, Wei-Ti Liu
  • Patent number: 10943557
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus to transition a display device between operating modes using a single dedicated pin of a circuit connected to the display device. The dedicated pin can receive a packet signal corresponding to an operating mode for the display device, and the circuit can thereafter cause the display device to transition into the desired operating mode in response to receiving the packet signal. The operating mode can be a low power on mode where an interface connected to the circuit is deactivated and at least some circuitry of the display device is throttled or powered off. The display device can be driven in an all black state while in the low power on mode, thereby allowing the display device to more quickly transition out of the low power on mode compared to when the display device is completely off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yafei Bi, Lei He, Mohammad B. Vahid Far, Mir B. Ghaderi, Venu Madhav Duggineni, Vanessa C. Heppolette, Joshua P. De Cesare, Hyuck-Jae Lee
  • Patent number: 10937467
    Abstract: A device includes a circuit cell, a first switching unit, and a second switching unit. The first switching unit is configured to output an auxiliary signal. The second switching unit is coupled between the first switching unit and the circuit cell, and configured to transmit a write voltage and an auxiliary signal to the circuit cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Po-Hao Lee, Yi-Chun Shih
  • Patent number: 10802735
    Abstract: An integrated circuit die element comprises one or more field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) elements; a reconfigurable dual function memory array, the reconfigurable dual function memory array including a plurality of reconfigurable memory array blocks, each reconfigurable memory array block being capable of configuration and reconfiguration as a storage memory array block or as a control logic array block for controlling at least a portion of the one or more FPGA elements; and a control logic circuit functioning to configure each reconfigurable memory array block as the respective memory array block or as the respective logic array block for controlling the one or more FPGA elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Arbor Company, LLLP
    Inventors: Darrel James Guzy, Wei-Ti Liu
  • Patent number: 10775433
    Abstract: An integrated circuit comprising a field programmable gate array (FPGA) including a plurality of logic tiles wherein each logic tile includes circuitry including (i) logic circuitry and (ii) an interconnect network including a plurality of multiplexers. The FPGA further includes a robust memory cell including: three or more storage elements that are more than one time programmable to store a data state, majority detection circuitry to detect a majority data state stored in the three or more storage elements; and an output, coupled to the majority detection circuitry, to output mode select data which is representative of the majority data state stored in the storage elements. The FPGA also includes mode/function select circuitry to configure a mode of operation of at least a portion of the circuitry in one or more of the plurality of logic tiles based on the mode select data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Flex Logix Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Valentin Ossman, Anthony Kozaczuk, Cheng C. Wang
  • Patent number: 10771054
    Abstract: A control circuit configured to supply a control voltage to a control terminal (G) of a solid state solid state switching device of a solid state power controller. The control circuit comprises: a primary controller operative to supply a primary control voltage to the control terminal (G) of the solid state switching device; and an auxiliary circuit configured to supply an auxiliary control voltage to the control terminal (G) of the solid state switching device in case the primary controller falls into an inoperative condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: HS ELEKTRONIK SYSTEME GMBH
    Inventors: Markus Greither, David Kucharski
  • Patent number: 10636507
    Abstract: A memory-testing method is adapted in a memory circuit including a first block and a second block including a plurality of row addresses and column addresses. The memory-testing method includes: selecting one of the row addresses and one of the column addresses as a testing row and a testing column according to selection logic; selecting sampled column addresses of the testing row and sampled row addresses of the testing column according to a sampling process; executing the read operation on the sampled column addresses of the testing row and the sampled row addresses of the testing column in the first block; determining whether the read fail rate of the first block exceeds a predetermined ratio; and marking the first block as an input/output fail when the read fail rate exceeds the predetermined ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: WINBOND ELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Lih-Wei Lin, Tsung-Huan Tsai, Ju-Chieh Cheng
  • Patent number: 10475502
    Abstract: Word-line drivers, memories, and methods of operating word-line drivers are provided. A word-line driver coupled to an array of memory cells includes a decoder powered by a first power supply. The decoder is configured to decode an address to provide a plurality of word-line signals. The word-line driver also includes a plurality of output stages powered by a second power supply that is different than the first power supply. Each of the output stages includes a first transistor having a gate controlled by a first control signal and an inverter. The inverter is coupled between the first transistor and a ground and has an input coupled to the decoder to receive one of the word-line signals. The word-line driver also includes pull-down circuitry coupled between the gates of the first transistors and the ground and activated by a second control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited
    Inventors: Ali Taghvaei, Atul Katoch
  • Patent number: 10437685
    Abstract: Described is memory system enabling memory mirroring in single write operations for the primary and backup data storage. The memory system utilizes a memory channel including one or more latency groups, with each latency group encompassing a number of memory modules that have the same signal timing to the controller. A primary copy and a backup copy of a data element can be written to two memory modules in the same latency group of the channel and in a single write operation. The buses of the channel may have the same trace length to each of the memory modules within a latency group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Rambus Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Woo, David A. Secker, Ravindranath Kollipara
  • Patent number: 10332586
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods related to subrow addressing for electronic memory and/or storage are described. Independent subrow addressing may enable energy consumed by performance of an operation on a particular subset of data values stored by a row to more closely correspond to the size of the particular subset of data values relative to energy consumed by addressing and activating the complete row. For instance, one such apparatus includes a plurality of subrows within a row of memory cells and a controller configured to selectably address and manage an activation state of each subrow of the plurality of subrows. The apparatus further includes subrow driver circuitry coupled to the controller. The subrow driver circuitry is configured to maintain one or more subrows of the plurality in the activation state based at least in part on signaling from the controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Glen E. Hush, Richard C. Murphy
  • Patent number: 10304518
    Abstract: Some embodiments include an apparatus which has a wordline coupled with a transistor gate, and which has a compensator line extending along the wordline and spaced from the wordline by a dielectric region. A driver is coupled with the wordline, and a controller is coupled with the compensator line. The wordline is coupled with access transistors, and is operated at a first voltage while the access transistors are in an OFF state. The compensator line is operated at a second voltage while the wordline is at the first voltage; with the second voltage being greater than the first voltage. The wordline is operated at a third voltage while the access transistors are in an ON state, and the compensator line is operated at a fourth voltage while the wordline is at the third voltage. The third voltage may or may not be greater than the fourth voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Deepak Chandra Pandey, Chandra Mouli, Haitao Liu
  • Patent number: 10217493
    Abstract: Provided is memory device and a memory bank, comprising a global data bus, and a local data bus split into two parts, wherein the local data bus is configurable to direct signals to the global data bus. Provided also is a method in which signals are received in a local data bus that is split into two parts, and the signals are directed from the local data bus to the global data bus. Provided also is a computational device comprised of a processor and the memory device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wei Wu, Shigeki Tomishima, Shih-Lien L. Lu
  • Patent number: 10153038
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a semiconductor memory device includes an array of semiconductor memory cells arranged in rows and columns. The array includes a first segment of memory cells and a second segment of memory cells. A first pair of complementary local bit lines extend over the first segment of memory cells and is coupled to multiple memory cells along a first column within the first segment of memory cells. A second pair of complementary local bit lines extend over the second segment of memory cells and is coupled to multiple memory cells along the first column within the second segment of memory cells. A pair of switches is arranged between the first and second segments of memory cells. The pair of switches is configured to selectively couple the first pair of complementary local bit lines in series with the second pair of complementary local bit lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mahmut Sinangil, Hidehiro Fujiwara, Hung-Jen Liao, Jonathan Tsung-Yung Chang, Yen-Huei Chen, Sahil Preet Singh
  • Patent number: 10061378
    Abstract: A system and method is disclosed for an electronic device, such as a non-volatile memory associated with a host, to determine a current sourcing capability of the host and to adjust performance characteristics of the electronic device based on the determined current sourcing capability. The system may include an input current source testing circuit, device function circuitry and a controller configured to determine a current sourcing capability of a host with the input current source testing circuit, select a device performance parameter associated with the determined current sourcing capability and operate the device function circuitry according to the device performance parameter until detecting a power-off event. The method may include the electronic device reducing a resistance presented to the host to a plurality of predetermined resistance levels to determine the current sourcing capability of the host and utilizing the results of the determination to select associated device performance parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: SanDisk Technologies LLC
    Inventor: Ankur Agrawal
  • Patent number: 10021450
    Abstract: Various arrangements are presented for reducing channel change times. A first tuner of a television receiver may tune to a decryption key transponder stream. The decryption key transponder stream may include a plurality of decryption keys for a plurality of television channels that are transmitted to the television receiver via a plurality of transponder streams. A second tuner of the television receiver may be tuned to a media transponder stream to receive a television channel. Data obtained from the decryption key transponder stream may be used for decoding the television channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: DISH Technologies L.L.C.
    Inventors: David Innes, William Michael Beals, David Kummer
  • Patent number: 10014035
    Abstract: A control device includes: a dummy memory cell group; a transistor having a first terminal, a grounded second terminal and a control terminal; an adjustor providing a resistance between the dummy memory cell group and the first terminal of the transistor; an inverter generating, based on a voltage at the first terminal of the transistor, a sense start signal that is associated with switching of a sense amplifier circuit of a semiconductor memory device from a disabled state to an enabled state; and a controller generating, based on the sense start signal, a control signal for controlling the transistor such that switching of the transistor from conduction into non-conduction is associated with the sense start signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: M31 TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yu-Fen Lin, Nan-Chun Lien
  • Patent number: 9947393
    Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit device includes a control unit which causes a column selection circuit to separate bit line pairs from a common bit line pair and causes a sense amplifier circuit to amplify a potential difference between the common bit line pair precharged by a precharge circuit, in response to a unique ID generation instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Yabuuchi, Hidehiro Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 9934827
    Abstract: Provided is memory device and a memory bank, comprising a global data bus, and a local data bus split into two parts, wherein the local data bus is configurable to direct signals to the global data bus. Provided also is a method in which signals are received in a local data bus that is split into two parts, and the signals are directed from the local data bus to the global data bus. Provided also is a computational device comprised of a processor and the memory device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wei Wu, Shigeki Tomishima, Shih-Lien L. Lu
  • Patent number: 9934844
    Abstract: Described is an apparatus comprising a plurality of memory arrays, local write assist logic units, and read/write local column multiplexers coupled together in a group such that area occupied by the local write assist logic units and the read/write local column multiplexers in the group is smaller than it would be when global write assist logic units and the read/write global column multiplexers are used. Described is a dual input level-shifter with integrated latch. Described is an apparatus which comprises: a write assist pulse generator operating on a first power supply; one or more pull-up devices coupled to the write assist pulse generator, the one or more pull-up devices operating on a second power supply different from the first power supply; and an output node to provide power supply to a memory cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Hieu T. Ngo, Daniel J. Cummings
  • Patent number: 9870810
    Abstract: A method and system for suppressing power signature in a memory device during read operations. A memory array stores data in an even number of cells per bit, such as 2 cells per bit, where complementary data states are stored in each pair of cells. Differential read out of the memory array via the bitlines suppresses power signature because the same power consumption occurs regardless of the data being accessed from the memory array. Data output buffers that provide complementary data to a downstream circuit system are reset to the same logic state prior to every read operation such that only one output buffer (in the complementary output buffer pair) is ever driven to the opposite logic state in each read cycle. Hence the power consumption remains the same regardless of the data states being read out from the memory array and provided by the output buffers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: Sidense Corp.
    Inventors: Wlodek Kurjanowicz, Betina Hold
  • Patent number: 9837129
    Abstract: Multiple integrated circuits (ICs) die, from different wafers, can be picked-and-placed, front-side planarized using a vacuum applied to a planarizing disk, and attached to each other or a substrate. The streets between the IC die can be filled, and certain techniques or fixtures allow application of monolithic semiconductor wafer processing for interconnecting different die. High density I/O connections between different IC die can be obtained using structures and techniques for aligning vias to I/O structures, and programmably routing IC I/O lines to appropriate vias. Existing IC die can be retrofitted for such interconnection to other IC die, such as by using similar techniques or tools.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: CrossFire Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Atkinson, Clifford H. Boler
  • Patent number: 9830977
    Abstract: There is provided a semiconductor integrated circuit device that can generate a unique ID with the suppression of overhead. When a unique ID is generated, the potential of a word line of a memory cell in an SRAM is raised above the power supply voltage of the SRAM, and then lowered below the power supply voltage of the SRAM. When the potential of the word line is above the power supply voltage of the SRAM, the same data is supplied to both the bit lines of the memory cell. Thereby, the memory cell in the SRAM is put into an undefined state and then changed so as to hold data according to characteristics of elements or the like configuring the memory cell. In the manufacture of the SRAM, there occur variations in characteristics of elements or the like configuring the memory cell. Accordingly, the memory cell in the SRAM holds data according to variations occurring in the manufacture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Yabuuchi, Hidehiro Fujiwara
  • Patent number: RE46916
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for managing mobile user access to enterprise network resources from a wireless mobile device, such as a smart phone or mobile computer, with improved security and access control. Access rules determining accessible resources and associated permitted operations are determined based on membership of an authenticated user to each of one or more groups, each group being associated with a set of permitted accessible resources and operations. For each user, based on membership of a group, or a Boolean evaluation of memberships of two or more groups, a list of accessible resources and permitted operations is generated, and the list is made available for subsequent processes, e.g. presentation to the user on an interface of the mobile device. Access rules may also be defined dependent on other information received from the system, or from the mobile device, such as time or location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Inventor: Thomas William Hickie