Patents by Inventor Pin-Chou Chiang
Pin-Chou Chiang 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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Publication number: 20230386570Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Applicant: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventor: Pin-Chou Chiang
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Patent number: 11735253Abstract: Methods of operating a memory, and memory configured to perform similar methods, may include determining a memory cell age of a plurality of memory cells, determining a desired programming step voltage for programming memory cells having the determined memory cell age, and performing a programming operation on the plurality of memory cells using the desired programming step voltage corresponding to the determined memory cell age. Methods may further include configuring a memory, including 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.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventor: Pin-Chou Chiang
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Patent number: 11631319Abstract: A resistor-capacitor (RC) sensor circuit includes an integration capacitor configured to integrate a representative copy of a current that drives an electronic circuit line. The integration capacitor is configured to integrate over a first time period to generate a first representative voltage and over a second time period to generate a second representative voltage. The RC sensor circuit includes a sampling circuit coupled to the integration capacitor and configured to sample the first representative voltage and the second representative voltage. A ratio of the first sampled voltage and the second sampled voltage is indicative of an RC time constant of the electronic circuit line.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2021Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventors: Pin-Chou Chiang, Michele Piccardi, Theodore T. Pekny
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Publication number: 20220108600Abstract: A system and a memory device including a driver circuit, to perform first operations including driving a resistor-capacitor (RC) sensor circuit of an electronic device to a drive voltage using a representative copy of a current that drives an electronic circuit line of the electronic device. The system and memory device including the RC sensor circuit, coupled to the driver circuit, to perform second operations including determining a first sample voltage by sampling a first representative voltage generated at the RC sensor circuit, and determining a second sample voltage by sampling a second representative voltage generated at the RC sensor circuit. The ratio of the first sample voltage and the second sample voltage is indicative of an RC time constant of the electronic circuit line.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2021Publication date: April 7, 2022Inventors: Pin-Chou Chiang, Michele Piccardi, Theodore T. Pekny
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Patent number: 11205338Abstract: A resistor-capacitor (RC) sensor circuit of an electronic device is driven to a drive voltage using a representative copy of a current that drives an electronic circuit line of the electronic device. The RC sensor circuit is to sample voltages that are indicative of an RC time constant of the electronic circuit line. A first sample voltage is determined by sampling a first representative voltage generated at the RC sensor circuit by driving the RC sensor circuit with the representative copy of the current over a first time period. A second sample voltage is determined by sampling a second representative voltage generated at the RC sensor circuit by driving the RC sensor circuit with the representative copy of the current over a second time period. A ratio of the first sample voltage and the second sample voltage is indicative of the RC time constant of the electronic circuit line.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2019Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventors: Pin-Chou Chiang, Michele Piccardi, Theodore T. Pekny
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Publication number: 20210343335Abstract: Methods of operating a memory, and memory configured to perform similar methods, may include determining a memory cell age of a plurality of memory cells, determining a desired programming step voltage for programming memory cells having the determined memory cell age, and performing a programming operation on the plurality of memory cells using the desired programming step voltage corresponding to the determined memory cell age. Methods may further include configuring a memory, including 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.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2021Publication date: November 4, 2021Applicant: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventor: Pin-Chou Chiang
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Publication number: 20210335125Abstract: A resistor-capacitor (RC) sensor circuit includes an integration capacitor configured to integrate a representative copy of a current that drives an electronic circuit line. The integration capacitor is configured to integrate over a first time period to generate a first representative voltage and over a second time period to generate a second representative voltage. The RC sensor circuit includes a sampling circuit coupled to the integration capacitor and configured to sample the first representative voltage and the second representative voltage. A ratio of the first sampled voltage and the second sampled voltage is indicative of an RC time constant of the electronic circuit line.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2021Publication date: October 28, 2021Inventors: Pin-Chou Chiang, Michele Piccardi, Theodore T. Pekny
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Patent number: 11081170Abstract: Methods of operating a memory, and memory configured to perform similar methods, may include applying a first plurality of programming pulses to control gates of a plurality of memory cells during a particular programming operation and applying a second plurality of programming pulses to the control gates of the plurality of memory cells during a subsequent programming operation, wherein the first plurality of programming pulses have a particular slope, and wherein the second plurality of programming pulses have a different slope less than the particular slope. Methods of configuring a memory may 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.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2018Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventor: Pin-Chou Chiang
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Patent number: 11074805Abstract: The RC sensor circuit includes a driver circuit that includes an output configured to drive the RC sensor circuit to a drive voltage using a representative copy of a current that drives an electronic circuit line. The RC sensor circuit includes an integration capacitor. The integration capacitor is configured to integrate the representative copy of the current over a first time period to generate a first representative voltage and over a second time period to generate a second representative voltage. The RC sensor circuit includes a sampling circuit coupled to the integration capacitor. The sampling circuit is configured to determine a first sample voltage by sampling the first representative voltage and a second sample voltage by sampling the second representative voltage. A ratio of the first sample voltage and the second sample voltage is indicative of an RC time constant of the electronic circuit line.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2019Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventors: Pin-Chou Chiang, Michele Piccardi, Theodore T. Pekny
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Publication number: 20210192928Abstract: A resistor-capacitor (RC) sensor circuit of an electronic device is driven to a drive voltage using a representative copy of a current that drives an electronic circuit line of the electronic device. The RC sensor circuit is to sample voltages that are indicative of an RC time constant of the electronic circuit line. A first sample voltage is determined by sampling a first representative voltage generated at the RC sensor circuit by driving the RC sensor circuit with the representative copy of the current over a first time period. A second sample voltage is determined by sampling a second representative voltage generated at the RC sensor circuit by driving the RC sensor circuit with the representative copy of the current over a second time period. A ratio of the first sample voltage and the second sample voltage is indicative of the RC time constant of the electronic circuit line.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2019Publication date: June 24, 2021Inventors: Pin-Chou Chiang, Michele Piccardi, Theodore T. Pekny
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Publication number: 20210192929Abstract: The RC sensor circuit includes a driver circuit that includes an output configured to drive the RC sensor circuit to a drive voltage using a representative copy of a current that drives an electronic circuit line. The RC sensor circuit includes an integration capacitor. The integration capacitor is configured to integrate the representative copy of the current over a first time period to generate a first representative voltage and over a second time period to generate a second representative voltage. The RC sensor circuit includes a sampling circuit coupled to the integration capacitor. The sampling circuit is configured to determine a first sample voltage by sampling the first representative voltage and a second sample voltage by sampling the second representative voltage. A ratio of the first sample voltage and the second sample voltage is indicative of an RC time constant of the electronic circuit line.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2019Publication date: June 24, 2021Inventors: Pin-Chou Chiang, Michele Piccardi, Theodore T. Pekny
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Publication number: 20200202926Abstract: Methods of operating a memory, and memory configured to perform similar methods, may include applying a first plurality of programming pulses to control gates of a plurality of memory cells during a particular programming operation and applying a second plurality of programming pulses to the control gates of the plurality of memory cells during a subsequent programming operation, wherein the first plurality of programming pulses have a particular slope, and wherein the second plurality of programming pulses have a different slope less than the particular slope. Methods of configuring a memory may 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.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2018Publication date: June 25, 2020Applicant: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventor: Pin-Chou Chiang