Patents Examined by Gene Audong
  • Patent number: 10224098
    Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method for controlling data transfer to an output port of a serial data link interface in a semiconductor memory is disclosed. In one example, a flash memory device may have multiple serial data links, multiple memory banks and control input ports that enable the memory device to transfer the serial data to a serial data output port of the memory device. In another example, a flash memory device may have a single serial data link, a single memory bank, a serial data input port, a control input port for receiving output enable signals. The flash memory devices may be cascaded in a daisy-chain configuration using echo signal lines to serially communicate between memory devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Conversant Intellectual Property Management Inc.
    Inventors: HakJune Oh, Hong Beom Pyeon, Jin-Ki Kim
  • Patent number: 9972610
    Abstract: Techniques and mechanisms for a SIP to control access to a non-volatile memory of another packaged device. In an embodiment, the SIP includes interface a processor, a local memory and a memory controller that provides the processor with access to the local memory. The SIP further includes interface hardware to couple the SIP to the packaged device, wherein the processor of the SIP accesses a non-volatile memory of the packaged device via the memory controller of the SIP. In another embodiment, the interface hardware of the SIP includes a first plurality of contacts to couple to the packaged device, as well as a second plurality of contacts. An interface standard describe an arrangement of interface contacts, wherein, of a first arrangement of the first contacts and the second arrangement of the second contacts, only the second arrangement conforms to the described arrangement of interface contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Bilal Khalaf
  • Patent number: 9953692
    Abstract: An in-plane SOT MRAM non-volatile memory cell has enhanced thermal stability due to coercive pinning provided by an adjacent antiferromagnetic layer that has a thickness that is less than a minimum critical thickness needed to provide exchange bias.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Goran Mihajlovic, Ching Hwa Tsang
  • Patent number: 9721651
    Abstract: A circuit includes: a first data line; a second data line; a write driver including first and second transistors; a first switch connected in series with the first transistor to form a first series-connected pair; a second switch in series with the second transistor to form a second series-connected pair; and a level shifter which includes the first and second transistors. The first series-connected pair is coupled between a first voltage node and the first data line. The second series-connected pair is coupled between the first voltage node and the second data line. Gate terminals of the first and second transistors are correspondingly cross-coupled with the second and first data lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Hao-I Yang, Chia-En Huang, Cheng Hung Lee, Geng-Cing Lin, Jung-Ping Yang
  • Patent number: 9281043
    Abstract: An apparatus is described that includes a bit line. The apparatus also includes first and second storage cells coupled to the bit line. The first storage cell has a first access transistor. The first access transistor is coupled to a first line resistance. The second storage cell has a second access transistor. The second access transistor is coupled to a second line resistance. The second line resistance is greater than the first line resistance. The apparatus also includes first and second drivers that are coupled to the bit line. The second driver is a stronger driver than the first driver. The apparatus also includes circuitry to select the first driver to write information into the first storage cell and select the second driver to write information into the second storage cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Pulkit Jain, Fatih Hamzaoglu, Liqiong Wei