Patents by Inventor Maurizio Di Zenzo
Maurizio Di Zenzo 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).
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Patent number: 9170635Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems for a memory management system within an electronic device are disclosed, such as those wherein the memory management system is external to and compatible with architectures of currently existing operating systems. One such memory management system may include a power savings manager configured to be invoked by a memory allocation manager. The power savings manager may also be configured to determine whether physical memory blocks should be active or inactive. Furthermore, the memory management system may include a driver configured to activate or deactivate a memory block in response to a system call from the power savings manager.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2014Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Assignee: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventor: Maurizio Di Zenzo
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Publication number: 20150006844Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems for a memory management system within an electronic device are disclosed, such as those wherein the memory management system is external to and compatible with architectures of currently existing operating systems. One such memory management system may include a power savings manager configured to be invoked by a memory allocation manager. The power savings manager may also be configured to determine whether physical memory blocks should be active or inactive. Furthermore, the memory management system may include a driver configured to activate or deactivate a memory block in response to a system call from the power savings manager.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2014Publication date: January 1, 2015Inventor: Maurizio Di Zenzo
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Patent number: 8838930Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems for a memory management system within an electronic device are disclosed, such as those wherein the memory management system is external to and compatible with architectures of currently existing operating systems. One such memory management system may include a power savings manager configured to be invoked by a memory allocation manager. The power savings manager may also be configured to determine whether physical memory blocks should be active or inactive. Furthermore, the memory management system may include a driver configured to activate or deactivate a memory block in response to a system call from the power savings manager.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2011Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventor: Maurizio Di Zenzo
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Publication number: 20120079219Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems for a memory management system within an electronic device are disclosed, such as those wherein the memory management system is external to and compatible with the architecture of currently existing operating systems. One such memory management system may include a power savings manager configured to be invoked by a memory allocation manager. The power savings manager may also be configured to determine whether physical memory blocks should be active or inactive. Furthermore, the memory management system may include a driver configured to activate or deactivate a memory block in response to a system call from the power savings manager.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2011Publication date: March 29, 2012Applicant: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventor: Maurizio Di Zenzo
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Patent number: 8082387Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems for a memory management system within an electronic device are disclosed, such as those wherein the memory management system is external to and compatible with the architecture of currently existing operating systems. One such memory management system may include a power savings manager configured to be invoked by a memory allocation manager. The power savings manager may also be configured to determine whether physical memory blocks should be active or inactive. Furthermore, the memory management system may include a driver configured to activate or deactivate a memory block in response to a system call from the power savings manager.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2007Date of Patent: December 20, 2011Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventor: Maurizio Di Zenzo
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Patent number: 7949844Abstract: A memory device for multichannel continuous or fixed burst mode operation includes multiple burst address counter circuits and associated control logic to minimize latency which would otherwise occur in multichannel operation.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2008Date of Patent: May 24, 2011Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventors: Giuliano Gennaro Imondi, Maurizio Di Zenzo, Mario Antonio Fazio
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Publication number: 20090113162Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems for a memory management system within an electronic device are disclosed, such as those wherein the memory management system is external to and compatible with the architecture of currently existing operating systems. One such memory management system may include a power savings manager configured to be invoked by a memory allocation manager. The power savings manager may also be configured to determine whether physical memory blocks should be active or inactive. Furthermore, the memory management system may include a driver configured to activate of deactivate a memory block in response to a system call from the power savings manager.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2007Publication date: April 30, 2009Applicant: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventor: Maurizio Di-Zenzo
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Publication number: 20080195795Abstract: A memory device for multichannel continuous or fixed burst mode operation includes multiple burst address counter circuits and associated control logic to minimize latency which would otherwise occur in multichannel operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2008Publication date: August 14, 2008Inventors: Giuliano Gennaro Imondi, Maurizio Di Zenzo, Mario Antonio Fazio
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Patent number: 7363452Abstract: A memory device for multichannel continuous or fixed burst mode operation includes multiple burst address counter circuits and associated control logic to minimize latency which would otherwise occur in multichannel operation.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2006Date of Patent: April 22, 2008Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventors: Giuliano Gennaro Imondi, Maurizio Di Zenzo, Mario Antonio Fazio
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Patent number: 7117402Abstract: A flash memory erase check circuit is disclosed. One embodiment includes an on-chip circuit that quickly and reliably checks that the flash memory chip is actually erased even after data gain that has resulted, for example, from a long period of storage.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2002Date of Patent: October 3, 2006Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventors: Maurizio Di Zenzo, Maria Luisa Gallese, Giuliano Gennaro Imondi, Giovanni Naso
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Patent number: 7020737Abstract: A memory device for multichannel continuous or fixed burst mode operation includes multiple burst address counter circuits and associated control logic to minimize latency which would otherwise occur in multichannel operation.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2003Date of Patent: March 28, 2006Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventors: Giuliano Gennaro Imondi, Maurizio Di Zenzo, Mario Antonio Fazio
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Publication number: 20030214854Abstract: A memory device for multichannel continuous or fixed burst mode operation includes multiple burst address counter circuits and associated control logic to minimize latency which would otherwise occur in multichannel operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2003Publication date: November 20, 2003Inventors: Giuliano Gennaro Imondi, Maurizio Di Zenzo, Mario Antonio Fazio
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Publication number: 20030101390Abstract: A flash memory erase check circuit is disclosed. One embodiment includes an on-chip circuit that quickly and reliably checks that the flash memory chip is actually erased even after data gain that has resulted, for example, from a long period of storage.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2002Publication date: May 29, 2003Inventors: Maurizio Di Zenzo, Maria Luisa Gallese, Giuliano Gennaro Imondi, Giovanni Naso
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Patent number: 6130442Abstract: An integrated circuit chip which has a volatile memory also has a non-volatile memory for storing the parameter of a volatile memory which was measured while the chip was part of a completed wafer.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 1997Date of Patent: October 10, 2000Assignee: Texas Instruments IncorporatedInventors: Maurizio Di Zenzo, Giuseppe Savarese
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Patent number: 5798962Abstract: A memory module, such as a Single In Line Memory Module (SIMM), is provided which utilizes defective, substandard and/or unconventional memory devices to provide functionality that is equivalent to a memory module constructed with fully operational standard memory devices.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 1996Date of Patent: August 25, 1998Assignee: Texas Instruments IncorporatedInventors: Maurizio Di Zenzo, Romano Casalini
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Patent number: 5745673Abstract: A solid state disc (SSD) Memory comprising the following functional blocks: a memory block (DATA ARRAY) wherein check data bytes are written; a transcoder memory block (SCRAMBLE RAM) which contains the table enabling the reallocation of the data matrix addresses, wherein redundant rows are included; a block (SCRAM DEC) for decoding the addresses of the decoder table; a logic block (FUSE LOGIC) to enable a step to be executed to locate any non-useable row and to substitute said redundant rows therefor; an error correction code (ECC) block for implementing the error correction algorithm; an input buffer block (LOGICAL ROW ADDRESS BUFFER) for storing the row addresses coming from the external bus; a non-volatile memory block, programmed during the test stage and available to a possible processor for handling the contents of the transcoder memory (SCRAMBLE RAM); a word counter block (WORD COUNTER) that is driven from the external clock signal (clock) and counts the number of the addressed words and generates theType: GrantFiled: September 21, 1995Date of Patent: April 28, 1998Assignee: Texas Instruments IncorporatedInventors: Maurizio Di Zenzo, Rodolfo Grimani
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Patent number: 5541938Abstract: System for enabling the use of semiconductor dynamic memories having faulty locations therein where the memory is organized in banks for forming an elementary information word. The system identifies all homologous address locations which are not faulty, and the non-faulty locations are then stored as a map in a non-volatile read-only-memory related to the memory bank so as to form a transcoding table. Access to the memory blocks involves the use of a central processing unit requesting access to a block identified by a sequential address. The system then provides for associating the material address of a block of the memory array to the logical address, this association or transcoding operation being carried out by the non-volatile read-only-memory.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 1994Date of Patent: July 30, 1996Assignee: Texas Instruments IncorporatedInventors: Maurizio Di Zenzo, Pasquale Pistilli, Adelio Salsano