Patents by Inventor Karthik Sarpatwari

Karthik Sarpatwari 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: 11783902
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes apparatuses, methods, and systems for multi-state programming of memory cells. An embodiment includes a memory having a plurality of memory cells, and circuitry configured to program a memory cell of the plurality of memory cells to one of four possible data states by applying a first voltage pulse to the memory cell wherein the first voltage pulse has a first polarity and a first magnitude, and applying a second voltage pulse to the memory cell wherein the second voltage pulse has a second polarity and a second magnitude, and the second voltage pulse is applied for a shorter duration than the first voltage pulse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Karthik Sarpatwari, Nevil N. Gajera
  • Patent number: 11782830
    Abstract: This document describes apparatuses and techniques for cache memory with randomized eviction. In various aspects, a cache memory randomly selects a cache line for eviction and/or replacement. The cache memory may also support multi-occupancy whereby the cache memory enters data reused from another cache line to replace the data of the randomly evicted cache line. By so doing, the cache memory may operate in a nondeterministic fashion, which may increase a probability of data remaining in the cache memory for subsequent requests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Amitava Majumdar, Sandeep Krishna Thirumala, Lingming Yang, Karthik Sarpatwari, Nevil N. Gajera
  • Patent number: 11778806
    Abstract: Some embodiments include apparatuses and methods of operating such apparatuses. One of such apparatuses includes a data line, a conductive region, and a memory cell including a first transistor and a second transistor. The first transistor includes a first channel region coupled to the data line and the conductive region, a charge storage structure, and a first gate. The second transistor includes a second channel region coupled to the data line and the charge storage structure, and a second gate. The first gate is electrically separated from the second gate and opposite from the second gate in a direction from the first channel region to the second channel region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric S. Carman, Durai Vishak Nirmal Ramaswamy, Richard E Fackenthal, Kamal M. Karda, Karthik Sarpatwari, Haitao Liu, Duane R. Mills, Christian Caillat
  • Patent number: 11776907
    Abstract: Some embodiments include apparatuses and methods of forming the apparatuses. One of the apparatuses includes a data line, a memory cell coupled to the data line, a ground connection, and a conductive line. The memory cell includes a first transistor and a second transistor. The first transistor includes a first region electrically coupled to the data line, and a charge storage structure electrically separated from the first region. The second transistor includes a second region electrically coupled to the charge storage structure and the data line. The ground connection is coupled to the first region of the first transistor. The conductive line is electrically separated from the first and second regions and spans across part of the first region of the first transistor and part of the second region of the second transistor and forming a gate of the first and second transistors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Kamal M. Karda, Karthik Sarpatwari, Haitao Liu, Durai Vishak Nirmal Ramaswamy
  • Patent number: 11775431
    Abstract: This document describes apparatuses and techniques for cache memory with randomized eviction. In various aspects, a cache memory randomly selects a cache line for eviction and/or replacement. The cache memory may also support multi-occupancy whereby the cache memory enters data reused from another cache line to replace the data of the randomly evicted cache line. By so doing, the cache memory may operate in a nondeterministic fashion, which may increase a probability of data remaining in the cache memory for subsequent requests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Amitava Majumdar, Sandeep Krishna Thirumala, Lingming Yang, Karthik Sarpatwari, Nevil N. Gajera
  • Publication number: 20230299163
    Abstract: An inverter includes a transistor, an additional transistor overlying the transistor, and a hybrid gate electrode interposed between and shared by the transistor and the additional transistor. The hybrid gate electrode includes a region overlying a channel structure of the transistor, an additional region overlying the region and underlying an additional channel structure of the additional transistor, and further region interposed between the region and the additional region. The region has a first material composition. The additional region has a second material composition different than the first material composition of the region. Memory devices and electronic systems are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Kamal M. Karda, Haitao Liu, Durai Vishak Nirmal Ramaswamy, Karthik Sarpatwari, Richard E. Fackenthal
  • Publication number: 20230298652
    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: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Kamal M. Karda, Haitao Liu, Karthik Sarpatwari, Durai Vishak Nirmal Ramaswamy, Alessandro Calderoni, Richard E. Fackenthal, Duane R. Mills
  • Publication number: 20230269922
    Abstract: Some embodiments include apparatuses and methods of forming the apparatuses. One of the apparatuses includes a substrate, a conductive plate located over the substrate to couple a ground connection, a data line located between the substrate and the conductive plate, a memory cell, and a conductive line. The memory cell includes a first transistor and a second transistor. The first transistor includes a first region electrically coupled between the data line and the conductive plate, and a charge storage structure electrically separated from the first region. The second transistor includes a second region electrically coupled to the charge storage structure and the data line. The conductive line is electrically separated from the first and second regions and spans across part of the first region of the first transistor and part of the second region of the second transistor and forming a gate of the first and second transistors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Kamal M. Karda, Karthik Sarpatwari, Haitao Liu, Durai Vishak Nirmal Ramaswamy
  • Publication number: 20230267996
    Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus to program a memory cell to have a threshold voltage to a level representative of one value among more than two predetermined values. A first voltage pulse is driven across the memory cell to cause a predetermined current to go through the memory cell. The first voltage pulse is sufficient to program the memory cell to a level representative of a first value. To program the memory cell to a level representative of a second value, a second voltage pulse, different from the first voltage pulse, is driven across the memory cell within a time period of residual poling in the memory cell caused by the first voltage pulse.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Lingming Yang, Xuan Anh Tran, Karthik Sarpatwari, Francesco Douglas Verna-Ketel, Jessica Chen, Nevil N. Gajera, Amitava Majumdar
  • Publication number: 20230268005
    Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus to determine, in response to a command to write data into a set of memory cells, a programming mode of a set of memory cell to optimize performance in retrieving the data back from the set of memory cells. For example, based on usages of a memory region containing the memory cell set, a predictive model can be used to identify a combination of an amount of redundant information to be stored into the memory cells in the set and a programming mode of the memory cells to store the redundant information. Increasing the amount of redundant information can increase error recovery capability but increase bit error rate and/or increase time to read. The predictive model is trained to predict the combination to optimize read performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Karthik Sarpatwari, Fabio Pellizzer, Nevil N. Gajera
  • Patent number: 11735258
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes apparatuses, methods, and systems for increase of a sense current in memory. An embodiment includes a memory having a plurality of memory cells, and circuitry configured to apply, prior to sensing a data state of a memory cell of the plurality of memory cells, a voltage to an access line to which the memory cell is coupled, determine whether an amount of current on the access line in response to the applied voltage meets or exceeds a threshold amount of current, and determine whether to increase a magnitude of a current used to sense the data state of the memory cell based on whether the amount of current on the access line in response to the applied voltage meets or exceeds the threshold amount of current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhongyuan Lu, Robert J. Gleixner, Karthik Sarpatwari
  • Publication number: 20230262954
    Abstract: Some embodiments include apparatuses and methods of forming the apparatuses. One of the apparatuses includes a conductive region, a first data line, a second data line, a first memory cell coupled to the first data line and the conductive region, a second memory cell coupled to the second data line and the conductive region, a conductive structure, and a conductive line. The first memory cell includes a first transistor coupled to a second transistor, the first transistor including a first charge storage structure. The second memory cell includes a third transistor coupled to a fourth transistor, the third transistor including a second charge storage structure. The conductive structure is located between and electrically separated from the first and second charge storage structures. The conductive line forms a gate of each of the first, second, third, and fourth transistors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Kamal M. Karda, Haitao Liu, Karthik Sarpatwari, Durai Vishak Nirmal Ramaswamy
  • Patent number: 11727983
    Abstract: Some embodiments include apparatuses and methods of forming the apparatuses. One of the apparatuses includes multiple two-transistor (2T) memory cells. Each of the multiple 2T memory cells includes: a p-channel field effect transistor (PFET) including a charge storage node and a read channel portion, an n-channel field effect transistor (NFET) including a write channel portion that is directly coupled to the charge storage node of the PFET; a single bit line pair coupled to the read channel portion of the PFET; and a single access line overlapping at least part of each of the read channel portion and the write channel portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Kamal M. Karda, Haitao Liu, Karthik Sarpatwari, Durai Vishak Nirmal Ramaswamy
  • Patent number: 11728005
    Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus to implement bipolar read retry. In response to a determination that a first result of reading a set of memory cells using a first magnitude of read voltage is erroneous, a second magnitude of read voltage, greater than the first magnitude, is identified for the bipolar read retry. In the retry, a controller uses voltage drivers to apply, to the set of memory cells, first voltages of the second magnitude in a first polarity to obtain a second result of reading the set of memory cells and, after the second result is generated and in parallel with decoding the second result, apply second voltages of the second magnitude in a second polarity, opposite to the first polarity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Yen Chun Lee, Karthik Sarpatwari, Nevil N. Gajera
  • Publication number: 20230240077
    Abstract: Some embodiments include apparatuses and methods forming the apparatuses. One of the apparatuses includes a first transistor including a first channel region, and a charge storage structure separated from the first channel region; a second transistor including a second channel region formed over the charge storage structure; and a data line formed over and contacting the first channel region and the second channel region, the data line including a portion adjacent the first channel region and separated from the first channel region by a dielectric material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Kamal M. Karda, Eric S. Carman, Karthik Sarpatwari, Durai Vishak Nirmal Ramaswamy, Richard E. Fackenthal, Haitao Liu
  • Patent number: 11710528
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for data-based polarity write operations are described. A write command may cause a set of data to be written to a set of memory cells. To write the set of data, a write operation that applies voltages across the memory cells based on a logic state of data to be written to the memory cells may be used. During a first interval of the write operation, a voltage may be applied across a memory cell based on a logic state of a data bit to be written to the memory cell. During a second interval of the write operation, a voltage may be applied across the memory cell based on an amount of charge conducted by the memory cell during the first interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Karthik Sarpatwari, Nevil N. Gajera, Hongmei Wang, Mingdong Cui
  • Publication number: 20230230642
    Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus to determine a programming mode of a set of memory cells that store an indicator of the programming mode. In response to a command to read the memory cells in a memory device, a first read voltage is applied to the memory cells to identify a first subset of the memory cells that become conductive under the first read voltage. The determination of the first subset is configured as an operation common to different programming modes. Based on whether the first subset of the memory cell includes one or more predefined memory cells, the memory device determines a programming mode of memory cells. Once the programming mode is identified from the common operation, the memory device can further execute the command to determine a data item stored, via the programming mode, in the memory cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Karthik Sarpatwari, Fabio Pellizzer, Nevil N. Gajera
  • Patent number: 11694747
    Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus to program a memory cell to have a threshold voltage to a level representative of one value among more than two predetermined values. A first voltage pulse is driven across the memory cell to cause a predetermined current to go through the memory cell. The first voltage pulse is sufficient to program the memory cell to a level representative of a first value. To program the memory cell to a level representative of a second value, a second voltage pulse, different from the first voltage pulse, is driven across the memory cell within a time period of residual poling in the memory cell caused by the first voltage pulse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Lingming Yang, Xuan Anh Tran, Karthik Sarpatwari, Francesco Douglas Verna-Ketel, Jessica Chen, Nevil N. Gajera, Amitava Majumdar
  • Patent number: 11688450
    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: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Kamal M. Karda, Haitao Liu, Karthik Sarpatwari, Durai Vishak Nirmal Ramaswamy, Alessandro Calderoni, Richard E Fackenthal, Duane R. Mills
  • Publication number: 20230195623
    Abstract: This document describes apparatuses and techniques for cache memory with randomized eviction. In various aspects, a cache memory randomly selects a cache line for eviction and/or replacement. The cache memory may also support multi-occupancy whereby the cache memory enters data reused from another cache line to replace the data of the randomly evicted cache line. By so doing, the cache memory may operate in a nondeterministic fashion, which may increase a probability of data remaining in the cache memory for subsequent requests.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Amitava Majumdar, Sandeep Krishna Thirumala, Lingming Yang, Karthik Sarpatwari, Nevil N. Gajera