Patents by Inventor Eui-Cheol Lim

Eui-Cheol Lim 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: 20240045861
    Abstract: A system for classifying data may include a memory, and a processor configured to determine a scan target including a data group selected from among data groups stored in the memory, based on a result of a comparison between first similarities of data groups stored in the memory and an externally received query, and a minimum value of second similarities of pieces of data included in a data group having a maximum value of the first similarities and the query, and to output, as result data responding to the query, scan data selected depending on a reference number of pieces of scan data from among pieces of scan data in the data group included in the scan target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Joon Seop SIM, Eui Cheol LIM
  • Publication number: 20230376767
    Abstract: A device for partitioning an input neural network includes an interposing circuit configured to determine a partitioning position to at which the input neural network is to be partitioned, to interpose a partitioning layer in the input neural network at the partitioning position; and to output and entire neural network that is obtained by interposing the partitioning layer in the input neural network, a training circuit configured to train the entire neural network; and a partitioning circuit configured to divide the entire neural network into a plurality of neural network partitions by partition the partitioning layer. The input neural network includes a plurality of layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Yeseong Kim, Jongho Park, Hyukjun Kwon, Seowoo Kim, Minho Ha, Eui Cheol Lim
  • Patent number: 11734168
    Abstract: A storage device can be designed to reduce latency in a read operation. Such a storage device can include: a memory device including a plurality of pages that include a first page and a second page different from the first page, each page including a plurality of memory cells that are configured to store data; and a memory controller in communication with the memory device and for sequentially storing result values of a function with respect to a plurality of input values in the plurality of memory cells, and controlling the memory device to store a result value in a last area of the first page and a start area of the second page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Seung Yong Lee, Eui Cheol Lim, Myoung Seo Kim
  • Patent number: 11487473
    Abstract: A memory system is disclosed, which relates to technology for implementing data communication between memory devices. The memory system includes a plurality of memory devices and a memory controller. The memory devices allow a data packet composed of data and header information to be directly communicated between the memory devices. The memory controller transmits the data packet to a source memory device from among the plurality of memory devices, and receives the data packet from a last memory device from among the plurality of memory devices. Each of the memory devices hashes the header information such that the data is accessed, using a result of the hash, in address regions located at different positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Chang Hyun Kim, Eui Cheol Lim, Young Jung Choi, Hyung Sik Won, Sun Woong Kim
  • Publication number: 20220245066
    Abstract: A memory system includes a first memory device having a first memory that includes a plurality of access management regions and a first access latency, each of the access management regions including a plurality of pages, the first memory device configured to detect a hot access management region having an access count that reaches a preset value from the plurality of access management regions, and detect one or more hot pages included in the hot access management region; and a second memory device having a second access latency that is different from the first access latency of the first memory device. Data stored in the one or more hot pages is migrated to the second memory device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Mi Seon HAN, Myoung Seo KIM, Yun Jeong MUN, Eui Cheol LIM
  • Publication number: 20220188243
    Abstract: A memory module may include J memory chips configured to input/output data in response to each of a plurality of translated address signals; and an address remapping circuit configured to generate a plurality of preliminary translated address signals by adding first correction values to a target address signal provided from an exterior of the memory module, and to generate the plurality of translated address signals by shifting all bits of each of the plurality of preliminary translated address signals so that K bits included in a bit string of each of the plurality of preliminary translated address signals are moved to other positions of each bit string.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Applicant: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Sung Woo HYUN, Hyeong Tak JI, Myoung Seo KIM, Jae Hoon KIM, Eui Cheol LIM
  • Publication number: 20220164280
    Abstract: A storage device can be designed to reduce latency in a read operation. Such a storage device can include: a memory device including a plurality of pages that include a first page and a second page different from the first page, each page including a plurality of memory cells that are configured to store data; and a memory controller in communication with the memory device and for sequentially storing result values of a function with respect to a plurality of input values in the plurality of memory cells, and controlling the memory device to store a result value in a last area of the first page and a start area of the second page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Seung Yong LEE, Eui Cheol LIM, Myoung Seo KIM
  • Publication number: 20220147274
    Abstract: A storage device includes: a memory device including memory cells for storing data, the memory cells grouped into a plurality of memory banks; and a memory controller coupled in communication with the memory device and configured to provide commands to the memory device and access one or more memory banks based on address information associated with the commands. The memory controller may count a number of access times that the memory controller has accessed to first memory bank by increasing the number of access times to the first memory bank based on a time interval between first active command and second active command for the first memory bank, and transmit, to the memory device, a control signal to perform a refresh operation on the first memory bank when the number of access times counted exceeds a predetermined number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Jae Hoon KIM, Eui Cheol LIM
  • Patent number: 11288012
    Abstract: A memory system is disclosed, which relates to technology for implementing data communication between memory devices. The memory system includes a plurality of memory devices and a memory controller. The memory devices allow a data packet composed of data and header information to be directly communicated between the memory devices. The memory controller transmits the data packet to a source memory device from among the plurality of memory devices, and receives the data packet from a last memory device from among the plurality of memory devices. Each of the memory devices hashes the header information such that the data is accessed, using a result of the hash, in address regions located at different positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Chang Hyun Kim, Eui Cheol Lim, Young Jung Choi, Hyung Sik Won, Sun Woong Kim
  • Publication number: 20220058157
    Abstract: A data processing system including a shared memory; a host processor configured to possess an ownership of the shared memory, and process a first task by accessing the shared memory; a processor configured to possess the ownership transferred from the host processor, and process a second task by accessing the shared memory; and a memory controller coupled among the host processor, the processor, and the shared memory, and configured to allow the host processor or the processor to access the shared memory according to the ownership.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Applicant: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Ji Hoon NAM, Eui Cheol LIM
  • Patent number: 11170862
    Abstract: A memory system includes a non-volatile memory device and a controller. The non-volatile memory device includes a plurality of memory regions, each memory region including a plurality of cells commonly coupled to a word line. The controller generates a plurality of candidate data sets based on source data, determines a number of vulnerable cells corresponding to each of the plurality of candidate data sets, and stores a candidate data set having a smallest number of vulnerable cells into a target memory region among the plurality of memory regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Mi Seon Han, Myoung Seo Kim, Eui Cheol Lim
  • Patent number: 11169953
    Abstract: A data processing system including a shared memory; a host processor configured to possess an ownership of the shared memory, and process a first task by accessing the shared memory; a processor configured to possess the ownership transferred from the host processor, and process a second task by accessing the shared memory; and a memory controller coupled among the host processor, the processor, and the shared memory, and configured to allow the host processor or the processor to access the shared memory according to the ownership.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: SK hynix inc.
    Inventors: Ji Hoon Nam, Eui Cheol Lim
  • Publication number: 20210318819
    Abstract: A data processing system includes a plurality of processors, a memory, a non-volatile memory, and a memory controller. The operational memory includes a first memory region and a second memory region. The memory controller performs a first swap operation of releasing assignment of a memory area assigned to a first processor within the first memory region, the first swap operation performed by moving data from the memory area to the second memory region. The memory controller performs a second swap operation by moving the data from the second memory region to the non-volatile memory when a second swap condition is satisfied after completion of the first swap operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventors: Yun Jeong MUN, Eui Cheol LIM, Mi Seon HAN, Myoung Seo KIM
  • Publication number: 20210295933
    Abstract: A memory system includes a non-volatile memory device and a controller. The non-volatile memory device includes a plurality of memory regions, each memory region including a plurality of cells commonly coupled to a word line. The controller generates a plurality of candidate data sets based on source data, determines a number of vulnerable cells corresponding to each of the plurality of candidate data sets, and stores a candidate data set having a smallest number of vulnerable cells into a target memory region among the plurality of memory regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: Mi Seon HAN, Myoung Seo KIM, Eui Cheol LIM
  • Publication number: 20210271600
    Abstract: A data storage device may include: a first memory configured to store a plurality of instructions and data required during an application operation; a cache configured to read, from the first memory, first data for operating the application and store the read first data therein; a processor configured to propagate a data read request to the first cache, a prefetcher, or both when a pointer chasing instruction is generated or a cache miss for the first cache occurs while the processor reads one or more instructions of the plurality of instructions and executes an application; and the prefetcher configured to read second data associated with the pointer chasing instruction or the cache miss from the first memory, and propagate the read second data to the cache.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: Jung Min CHOI, Byung Il KOH, Eui Cheol LIM
  • Publication number: 20210132910
    Abstract: An arithmetic device includes a multiplying-accumulating (MAC) operator and an activation function (AF) circuit. The MAC operator performs a MAC arithmetic operation for weight data and vector data to generate an arithmetic result signal. The AF circuit stores a look-up table for an activation function, adjusts a number of logic level combinations of an input distribution signal that correspond to each logic level combination of the output distribution signal, among a plurality of logic level combinations of the output distribution signal, based on an input range of the activation function. The AF circuit selects and outputs the output distribution signal that corresponds to the input distribution signal based on the look-up table. The input range of the activation function is based on a relative number of errors that occur.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Applicant: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Seung Yong LEE, Eui Cheol LIM, Choung Ki SONG, Myoung Seo KIM
  • Publication number: 20210117131
    Abstract: A memory system is disclosed, which relates to technology for implementing data communication between memory devices. The memory system includes a plurality of memory devices and a memory controller. The memory devices allow a data packet composed of data and header information to be directly communicated between the memory devices. The memory controller transmits the data packet to a source memory device from among the plurality of memory devices, and receives the data packet from a last memory device from among the plurality of memory devices. Each of the memory devices hashes the header information such that the data is accessed, using a result of the hash, in address regions located at different positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: Chang Hyun KIM, Eui Cheol LIM, Young Jung CHOI, Hyung Sik WON, Sun Woong KIM
  • Publication number: 20210064535
    Abstract: A memory system includes a first memory device having a first memory that includes a plurality of access management regions and a first access latency, each of the access management regions including a plurality of pages, the first memory device configured to detect a hot access management region having an access count that reaches a preset value from the plurality of access management regions, and detect one or more hot pages included in the hot access management region; and a second memory device having a second access latency that is different from the first access latency of the first memory device. Data stored in the one or more hot pages is migrated to the second memory device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Mi Seon HAN, Myoung Seo KIM, Yun Jeong MUN, Eui Cheol LIM
  • Patent number: 10915470
    Abstract: A memory system is disclosed, which relates to technology for an accelerator of a high-capacity memory device. The memory system includes a plurality of memories configured to store data therein, and a pooled memory controller (PMC) configured to perform map computation by reading the data stored in the plurality of memories and storing resultant data produced by the map computation in the plurality of memories.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Sun Woong Kim, Eui Cheol Lim
  • Patent number: 10853278
    Abstract: A memory system is disclosed, which relates to technology for an accelerator of a high-capacity memory device. The memory system includes a plurality of memories configured to store data therein, and a pooled memory controller (PMC) configured to perform map computation by reading the data stored in the plurality of memories and storing resultant data produced by the map computation in the plurality of memories.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Sun Woong Kim, Eui Cheol Lim