Patents Examined by Douglas King
  • Patent number: 12183416
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for temperature-compensated operation of electronic devices are described. For example, an apparatus for performing voltage compensation on a sense amplifier based on temperature may include a sense amplifier control circuit coupled to the sense amplifier to provide a compensation pulse to the sense amplifier, wherein the sense amplifier operates in a voltage compensation phase during the compensation pulse. The apparatus may determine the compensation pulse responsive to a voltage compensation duration signal that is based on the operating temperature of the apparatus. The voltage compensation occurs when there is no activate command immediately before or immediately after so that compensation duration change do not happen during an activate command from the command decoder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Inventors: Boon Hor Lam, Karl L. Major, Jonathan Hawkins, Galaly Ahmad
  • Patent number: 12165740
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for memory traffic monitoring are described. The monitoring may include traffic monitoring of access operations performed at various components of the memory device, or may include sensors that may measure parameters of components of the memory device to detect wear. The traffic monitoring or the parameters measured by the sensors may be represented by a characteristic related to an operational bias of circuits of the memory device. The memory device may use the characteristic (e.g., along with a threshold) to determine whether to adjust a parameter associated with performing access operations received by the memory device, in order to implement a corrective action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron P. Boehm, Scott E. Schaefer, Scott D. Van De Graaff, Mark D. Ingram, Todd Jackson Plum
  • Patent number: 12164783
    Abstract: An example method of performing read operation comprises: receiving a read request with respect to a set of memory cells of a memory device; determining a value of a media endurance metric of the set of memory cells; determining a programing temperature associated with the set of memory cells; determining a current operating temperature of the memory device; determining a voltage adjustment value based on the value of the media endurance metric, the programming temperature, and the current operating temperature; adjusting, by the voltage adjustment value, a bitline voltage applied to a bitline associated with the set of memory cells; and performing, using the adjusted bitline voltage, a read operation with respect to the set of memory cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Hyungseok Kim, Vamsi Pavan Rayaprolu, Sampath K. Ratnam
  • Patent number: 12167613
    Abstract: A method includes: providing a modulation circuit including a first resistive element, a second resistive element and a third resistive element; providing a memory array and a regulator connecting the modulation circuit to the memory array, wherein the regulator includes a transistor; determining an operation mode of the memory array; generating a first voltage at a drain terminal of the transistor, wherein the first voltage corresponds to a positive, negative zero temperature coefficient according to a first resistance ratio and a second resistance ratio; during a read operation, providing a first driving current to the memory array in response to the first voltage corresponding to the positive temperature coefficient; and during a write operation, providing a second driving current to the memory array in response to the first voltage corresponding to the negative temperature coefficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD.
    Inventor: Hung-Chang Yu
  • Patent number: 12159689
    Abstract: A method of corrupting contents of a memory array includes asserting a signal at a reset node to thereby cause starving of current supply to the memory array, and selecting bit lines and complementary bit lines associated with desired columns of the memory array that contain memory cells to have their contents corrupted. For each desired column, a logic state of its bit line and complementary bit line are forced to a same logic state. Each word line associated with desired rows of the memory array that contains memory cells to have their contents corrupted is simultaneously asserted, and then simultaneously deasserted to thereby place each memory cell to have its contents corrupted into a metastable state during a single clock cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics International N.V.
    Inventors: Praveen Kumar Verma, Promod Kumar, Harsh Rawat
  • Patent number: 12159663
    Abstract: A static random-access memory (SRAM) cell includes a first inverter and a second inverter being cross-coupled; a first access transistor that accesses an output of the first inverter under control of a word line; a second access transistor that accesses an output of the second inverter under control of the word line; a first passage transistor that passes a common-mode voltage, controlled by the output of the first inverter; a second passage transistor that passes an input signal, controlled by the output of the second inverter; and a capacitor switchably coupled to receive the common-mode voltage and the input signal through the first passage transistor and the second passage transistor respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignees: NCKU Research and Development Foundation, Himax Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Wei-Li He, Soon-Jyh Chang
  • Patent number: 12147784
    Abstract: A compute-in-memory (CIM) device has a memory array with a plurality of memory cells arranged in rows and columns. The plurality of memory cells includes a first memory cell in a first row and a first column of the memory array and a second memory cell in the first row and a second column of the memory array. The first and second memory cells are configured to store respective first and second weight signals. An input driver provides a plurality of input signals. A first logic circuit is coupled to the first memory cell to provide a first output signal based on a first input signal from the input driver and the first weight signal. A second logic circuit is coupled to the second memory cell to provide a second output signal based on a second input signal from the input driver and the second weight signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Po-Hao Lee, Chia-Fu Lee, Yi-Chun Shih, Yu-Der Chih, Hidehiro Fujiwara, Haruki Mori, Wei-Chang Zhao
  • Patent number: 12142340
    Abstract: A testing system includes a plurality of memory circuits and a testing circuit. The testing circuit is coupled to the memory circuits. The testing circuit is configured to perform a read/write operation on the memory circuits, and each of the memory circuits has a read/write starting time point corresponding to the read/write operation. The testing circuit is further configured to control the read/write starting time points of the memory circuits to be different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Realtek Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Shih-Chieh Lin, Sheng-Lin Lin, Li-Wei Deng
  • Patent number: 12131771
    Abstract: Sense amplifiers for memory devices include latch transistors that are used to latch values based on charges in memory cells. A first latch transistor applies a reference voltage to a first gut node of the sense amplifier via one of these latch transistors. The sense amplifier also applies a charge to a second gut node from a memory cell corresponding to the sense amplifier. The sense amplifier also latches a value in the sense amplifier based on a relationship between the reference voltage and the charge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Eric Carman
  • Patent number: 12125513
    Abstract: A system on chip (SOC) integrated circuit device having an incorporated ferroelectric memory configured to be selectively refreshed, or not, depending on different operational modes. The ferroelectric memory is formed of an array of ferroelectric memory elements (FMEs) characterized as non-volatile, read-destructive semiconductor memory cells each having at least one ferroelectric layer. The FMEs can include FeRAM, FeFET or FTJ constructions. A read/write circuit writes data to the FMEs and subsequently reads back data from the FMEs responsive to respective write and read signals supplied by a processor circuit of the SOC. A refresh circuit is selectively enabled in a first normal mode to refresh the FMEs after a read operation, and is selectively disabled in a second exception mode so that the FMEs are not refreshed after a read operation. The FMEs can be used as a main memory, a cache, a buffer, an OTP, a keystore, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventors: Jon D. Trantham, Praveen Viraraghavan, John W. Dykes, Ian J. Gilbert, Sangita Shreedharan Kalarickal, Matthew J. Totin, Mohamad El-Batal, Darshana H. Mehta
  • Patent number: 12125529
    Abstract: Methods of configuring a memory might include characterizing a read window budget for a programming operation of the memory as a function of a programming step voltage for a plurality of memory cell ages, determining a respective programming step voltage for each memory cell age of the plurality of memory cell ages in response to a desired read window budget, and storing data to the memory indicative of the determined respective programming step voltage for each memory cell age of the plurality of memory cell ages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Pin-Chou Chiang
  • Patent number: 12125541
    Abstract: A method of programming a non-volatile memory device may include; during a first channel initialization period, applying a first voltage to a selected word line and a first word line group proximate to the selected word line, and applying a second voltage lower than the first voltage to a second word line group distal from the selected word line, applying a first program voltage to the selected word line during a first program execution period in order to perform a first program operation for data, during a second channel initialization period, applying the first voltage to the selected word line and the first word line group, and applying the second voltage to the second word line group, and applying a second program voltage to the selected word line during a second program execution period in order to perform a second program operation for the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sungmin Joe
  • Patent number: 12118219
    Abstract: A data storage device includes a memory device and a controller. The controller is configured to assert a strobe cycle having a plurality of strobes to the memory device, where a die of the memory device may be associated with one or more strobes of the plurality of strobes. The controller is further configured to determine whether the die of the memory device requires additional power and adjust a strobe length of time of the corresponding strobe when the die of the memory device requires additional power. The controller is further configured to decrease a strobe length of time of one or more strobes that do not require additional power. By utilizing a time division peak power management (TD-PPM) feature by dynamically changing a strobe length of time of each strobe of the plurality of strobes, performance and latency of the data storage device may be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Sandisk Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Shay Benisty, Yossi Yoseph Hassan
  • Patent number: 12119062
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed can include determining, for a wordline of the plurality of wordlines, a respective value of a sensitivity metric that reflects a sensitivity of a threshold voltage of a memory cell associated with the wordline to a change in a threshold voltage of an adjacent memory cell. Embodiments can also include determining, for the wordline, that the respective value of the sensitivity metric satisfies a threshold criterion. Embodiments can further include responsive to determining that the respective value of the sensitivity metric satisfies the threshold criterion, associating the wordline with a first wordline group, wherein the first wordline group comprises one or more wordlines, and wherein each wordline of the one or more wordlines is associated with a respective value of the sensitivity metric that satisfies the threshold criterion. Embodiments can include performing, on a specified memory cell connected to the wordline associated with the first wordline group, a compensatory operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Mustafa N. Kaynak, Patrick R. Khayat, Sivagnanam Parthasarathy
  • Patent number: 12100457
    Abstract: A voltage supply circuit includes a temperature compensation circuit and a voltage regulation circuit. The temperature compensation circuit includes a comparator circuit comparing a device temperature value with a reference value to output a comparison result, and a compensation controller circuit receiving the comparison result, a compensation value control signal, and a compensation enable signal, and outputting a voltage control signal according to the comparison result. The voltage regulation circuit receives the voltage control signal and provides a voltage output according to the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: YANGTZE MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ning Zhang, Ruxin Wei, Yongyong Wang, Wei Huang
  • Patent number: 12100471
    Abstract: Memory devices are disclosed. A memory device may include a command and address (CA) interface region including a first CA input circuit configured to generate a first CA output AND a second CA input circuit configured to generate a second CA output. The first CA input circuit and the second CA input circuit are arranged in a mirror relationship. The CA interface region further includes a swap circuit configured to select one of the first CA output and the second CA output for a first internal CA signal and select the other of the first CA output and the second CA output for a second internal CA signal. Memory systems and systems are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Yoshida
  • Patent number: 12094509
    Abstract: Disclosed is a memory device including a magnetic storage element. The memory device includes a memory cell array, a voltage generator, and a write driver. The memory cell array includes a first region and a second region. The memory device is configured to store a value of a first read current determined based on a value of a reference resistance for distinguishing a parallel state and an anti-parallel state of a programmed memory cell. The sensing circuit is configured to generate the first read current based on the value of the first read current and to perform a read operation on the first region based on the first read current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Daeshik Kim
  • Patent number: 12087392
    Abstract: Provided is a memory interface device. A memory interface device, comprising: a DQS input buffer configured to receive input data strobe signals and output a first intermediate data strobe signal, the DQS input buffer providing a static offset; an offset control circuit configured to receive the first intermediate data strobe signal and output a second intermediate data strobe signal; and a duty adjustment buffer configured to receive the second intermediate data strobe signal and output a clean data strobe signal, wherein the offset control circuit provides a dynamic offset using the clean data strobe signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Young-Deuk Jeon, Min-Hyung Cho, Young-Su Kwon, Jin Ho Han
  • Patent number: 12080331
    Abstract: Some embodiments include apparatuses in which one of such apparatus includes a first memory cell including a first transistor having a first channel region coupled between a data line and a conductive region, and a first charge storage structure located between the first data line and the conductive region, and a second transistor having a second channel region coupled to and located between the first data line and the first charge storage structure; a second memory cell including a third transistor having a third channel region coupled between a second data line and the conductive region, and a second charge storage structure located between the second data line and the conductive region, and a fourth transistor having a fourth channel region coupled to and located between the second data line and the second charge storage structure; a conductive line forming a gate of each of the first, second, third, and fourth transistors; and a conductive structure located between the first and second charge storage stru
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Kamal M. Karda, Haitao Liu, Karthik Sarpatwari, Durai Vishak Nirmal Ramaswamy, Alessandro Calderoni, Richard E Fackenthal, Duane R. Mills
  • Patent number: 12073892
    Abstract: A memory system to store multiple bits of data in a memory cell. After receiving the data bits, a memory device coarsely programs a threshold voltage of the memory cell to a first level representative of a combination of bit values according to a mapping between combinations of bit values and threshold levels. The threshold levels are partitioned into a plurality of groups, each containing a subset of the threshold levels. A group identification of a first group, among the plurality of groups, containing the first level is determined for the memory cell. The memory device reads, using the group identification, a subset of the data bits back from the first memory cell, and combines the bits of the group identification and the subset to recover the entire set of data bits to finely program the threshold voltage of the memory cell to represent the data bits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Phong Sy Nguyen, James Fitzpatrick, Kishore Kumar Muchherla