Resistive Patents (Class 365/148)
  • Patent number: 11875866
    Abstract: Memory programming methods and memory systems are described. One example memory programming method includes programming a plurality of main cells of a main memory and erasing a plurality of second main cells of the main memory. The memory programming method further includes first re-writing one-time programmed data within a plurality of first one-time programmed cells of a one-time programmed memory during the programming and second re-writing one-time programmed data within a plurality of second one-time programmed cells of a one-time programmed memory during the erasing. Additional method and apparatus are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Takafumi Kunihiro
  • Patent number: 11864474
    Abstract: A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a resistive memory device, and at least a first photodetector and a second photodetector positioned adjacent to the resistive memory device to allow for measurement of the intensity of photon emission from a filament of the resistive memory device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Ando, Franco Stellari, Guy M. Cohen, Nanbo Gong
  • Patent number: 11861781
    Abstract: The graphics processing unit (GPU) of a processing system transitions to a low-power state between frame rendering operations according to an inter-frame power off process, where GPU state information is stored on retention hardware. The retention hardware can include retention random access memory (RAM) or retention flip-flops. The retention hardware is operable in an active mode and a retention mode, where read/write operations are enabled at the retention hardware in the active mode and disabled in the retention mode, but data stored on the retention hardware is still retained in the retention mode. The retention hardware is placed in the retention state between frame rendering operations. The GPU transitions from its low-power state to its active state upon receiving an indication that a new frame is ready to be rendered and is restored using the GPU state information stored at the retention hardware.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., ATI TECHNOLOGIES ULC
    Inventors: Sreekanth Godey, Ashkan Hosseinzadeh Namin, Seunghun Jin, Teik-Chung Tan
  • Patent number: 11864393
    Abstract: A memory device includes a bit line, a word line, a memory cell, select bit lines, and a controller. The memory cell includes a first transistor, data storage elements, and second transistors corresponding to the data storage elements. The first transistor includes a gate electrically coupled to the word line, a first source/drain, and a second source/drain. Each of the select bit lines is electrically coupled to a gate of a corresponding second transistor. Each data storage element and the corresponding second transistor are electrically coupled in series between the first source/drain of the first transistor and the bit line. The controller turns ON the first transistor and a selected second transistor, and, while the first transistor and the selected second transistor are turned ON, applies different voltages to the bit line to perform corresponding different operations on the data storage element coupled to the selected second transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Meng-Han Lin, Sai-Hooi Yeong, Han-Jong Chia, Chenchen Jacob Wang, Yu-Ming Lin
  • Patent number: 11853846
    Abstract: A crossbar array includes a number of memory elements. An analog-to-digital converter (ADC) is electronically coupled to the vector output register. A digital-to-analog converter (DAC) is electronically coupled to the vector input register. A processor is electronically coupled to the ADC and to the DAC. The processor may be configured to determine whether division of input vector data by output vector data from the crossbar array is within a threshold value, and if not within the threshold value, determine changed data values as between the output vector data and the input vector data, and write the changed data values to the memory elements of the crossbar array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Sai Rahul Chalamalasetti, Paolo Faraboschi, Martin Foltin, Catherine Graves, Dejan S. Milojicic, John Paul Strachan, Sergey Serebryakov
  • Patent number: 11848051
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for parallel drift cancellation are described. In some instances, during a first duration, a first voltage may be applied to a word line to threshold one or more memory cells included in a first subset of memory cells. During a second duration, a second voltage may be applied to the word line to write a first logic state to one or more memory cells included in the first subset and to threshold one or more memory cells included in a second subset of memory cells. During a third duration, a third voltage may be applied to the word line to write a second logic state to one or more memory cells included in the second subset of memory cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Fabio Pellizzer
  • Patent number: 11823741
    Abstract: In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates a phase change random access memory device that includes a phase change material (PCM) layer disposed between bottom and top electrodes. A controller circuit is coupled to the bottom and top electrodes and is configured to perform a first reset operation by applying a signal at a first amplitude across the PCM layer for a first time period and decreasing the signal from the first amplitude to a second amplitude for a second time period; and to perform a second reset operation by applying the signal at a third amplitude across the PCM layer for a third time period and decreasing the signal from the third amplitude to a fourth amplitude for a fourth time period greater than the second time period. After the fourth time period, the PCM layer has a percent crystallinity greater than the PCM layer after the second time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Jau-Yi Wu
  • Patent number: 11823737
    Abstract: Devices, systems and methods for adaptively controlling a reset current of a memory cell are described. A system comprises: a mirror circuit with one branch coupled with a top electrode of the memory cell and the other branch coupled with one end of a resistive reference, and wherein a bottom electrode of the memory cell is coupled to a reference potential, the other end of the resistive reference is provided with a first electric potential; a control circuit; and a feedback circuit for feeding an electric potential to the top electrode of the memory cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Marco Sforzin, Umberto Di Vincenzo
  • Patent number: 11818899
    Abstract: A chalcogen compound layer exhibiting ovonic threshold switching characteristics, a switching device, a semiconductor device, and/or a semiconductor apparatus including the same are provided. The switching device and/or the semiconductor device may include two or more chalcogen compound layers having different energy band gaps. Alternatively, the switching device and/or semiconductor device may include a chalcogen compound layer having a concentration gradient of an element of boron (B), aluminum (Al), scandium (Sc), manganese (Mn), strontium (Sr), and/or indium (In) in a thickness direction thereof. The switching device and/or a semiconductor device may exhibit stable switching characteristics while having a low off-current value (leakage current value).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wooyoung Yang, Bonwon Koo, Chungman Kim, Kwangmin Park, Hajun Sung, Dongho Ahn, Changseung Lee, Minwoo Choi
  • Patent number: 11810854
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first level having a plurality of transistor devices, and a first wiring level positioned over the first level. The first wiring level includes a plurality of conductive lines extending parallel to the first level, a plurality of conductive vertical interconnects extending perpendicular to the first level, and one or more programmable vertical interconnects that extend perpendicular to the first level and include a programmable material having a modifiable resistivity in that the one or more programmable vertical interconnects change between being conductive and being non-conductive according to a current pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Mark I. Gardner, H. Jim Fulford, Anton J. deVilliers
  • Patent number: 11812676
    Abstract: A phase change memory device is provided. The phase change memory device includes a phase change memory material within an electrically insulating wall, a first heater terminal in the electrically insulating wall, and two read terminals in the electrically insulating wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Timothy Mathew Philip, Lawrence A. Clevenger, Kevin W. Brew
  • Patent number: 11810618
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods related to extended memory communication subsystems for performing extended memory operations are described. An example method can include receiving, at a processing unit that is coupled between a host device and a non-volatile memory device, signaling indicative of a plurality of operations to be performed on data written to or read from the non-volatile memory device. The method can further include performing, at the processing unit, at least one operation of the plurality of operations in response to the signaling. The method can further include accessing a portion of a memory array in the non-volatile memory device. The method can further include transmitting additional signaling indicative of a command to perform one or more additional operations of the plurality of operations on the data written to or read from the non-volatile memory device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Vijay S. Ramesh, Allan Porterfield
  • Patent number: 11804265
    Abstract: Provided herein may be a resistive memory device and a method of operating the resistive memory device. The resistive memory device may include strings coupled between one or more source lines and one or more bit lines, each string including a set of one or more resistive memory cells, one or more word lines respectively coupled to the set of one or more resistive memory cells; and a voltage generator configured to control a level of a turn-on voltage to be applied to one or more unselected word lines among the one or more word lines depending on a program target state of a subset of resistive memory cells including one or more resistive memory cells selected from among the set of one or more resistive memory cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventor: In Ku Kang
  • Patent number: 11804263
    Abstract: A semiconductor device may include a word line, a bit line crossing the word line, and a memory cell coupled to the word line and the bit line to receive an electrical signal to control the memory cell and including a switching material layer and an oxidation-reduction reversible material layer that is in contact with the switching material layer to allow for either oxidation reaction or reduction reaction to occur in response to different amplitudes and different polarities of the electrical signal, wherein the oxidation-reduction reversible material layer and the switching material layer responds to a first threshold voltage and a first polarity of the electrical signal to generate an oxidation interface between the switching material layer and the oxidation-reduction reversible material layer, and responds to a second threshold voltage and a second polarity of the electrical signal to reduce the generation of the oxidation interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: SK HYNIX INC.
    Inventor: Tae Jung Ha
  • Patent number: 11798623
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to multi-switch storage cells (MSSCs), three-dimensional MSSC arrays, and three-dimensional MSSC memory. Multi-switch storage cells include a cell select device, multiple resistive change elements, and an intracell wiring electrically connecting the multiple resistive change elements together and to the cell select device. MSSC arrays are designed (architected) and operated to prevent inter-cell (sneak path) currents between multi-switch storage cells, which prevents stored data disturb from adjacent cells and adjacent cell data pattern sensitivity. Additionally, READ and WRITE operations may be performed on one of the multiple resistive change elements in a multi-switch storage cell without disturbing the stored data in the remaining resistive change elements. However, controlled parasitic currents may flow in the remaining resistive change elements within the cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Nantero, Inc.
    Inventor: Claude L. Bertin
  • Patent number: 11790989
    Abstract: A method for setting memory elements in a plurality of states includes applying a set signal to a memory element to transition the memory element from a low-current state to a high-current state; applying a partial reset signal to the memory element to transition the memory element from the high-current state to a state between the high-current state and the low-current state; determining whether the state corresponds to a predetermined state; and applying one or more additional partial reset signals to the memory element until the state corresponds to the predetermined current state. The memory element may be coupled in series with a transistor, and a voltage control circuit may apply voltages to the transistor to set and partially reset the memory element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Deepak Kamalanathan, Siddarth Krishnan, Archana Kumar, Fuxi Cai, Federico Nardi
  • Patent number: 11769544
    Abstract: Code comparators with nonpolar dynamical switches are provided. An example apparatus comprises: a plurality of row wires; a plurality of column wires; one or more cross-point devices, and a nonpolar volatile two-terminal device formed within a plurality of cross-point devices. Each cross-point device in the plurality of cross-point devices is located at a cross-point between a row in the plurality of row wires and a column in the plurality of column wires; the nonpolar volatile two-terminal device is configured to automatically revert from an ON state to an OFF state, in response to a removal of a bias or signal applied on the nonpolar volatile two-terminal device. The nonpolar volatile two-terminal device is configured to automatically revert from an ON state to an OFF state, in response to a removal of a bias or signal applied on the nonpolar volatile two-terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: TetraMem Inc.
    Inventor: Ning Ge
  • Patent number: 11769538
    Abstract: In an example, an apparatus includes a memory array in a first region and decode circuitry in a second region separate from a semiconductor. The decode circuitry is coupled to an access line in the memory array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard K. Dodge, Timothy C. Langtry
  • Patent number: 11770987
    Abstract: A ReRAM device includes a dielectric layer, a bottom electrode, a data storage layer, a metal covering layer, and a top electrode. The dielectric layer has a recess. At least a portion of the bottom electrode is exposed through the recess. The data storage layer is disposed on a sidewall and a bottom surface of the recess, electrically contacts with the bottom electrode, and has a top portion lower than an opening of the recess. The metal covering layer blanket covers the data storage layer, has an extension portion covering the top portion, and connects to the sidewall of the recess. The top electrode is disposed in the recess, and is electrically contact with the metal covering layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Shu-Hung Yu, Chun-Hung Cheng, Chuan-Fu Wang
  • Patent number: 11763912
    Abstract: A power verification circuit is provided. The power verification circuit includes a current source, a resistive random access memory (RRAM) cell and a Zener diode. The current source is coupled to a power terminal. The RRAM cell is coupled between the current source and a ground terminal. The Zener diode has an anode coupled to the RRAM cell and a cathode coupled to the power terminal. The impedance of the RRAM cell is determined by the power voltage applied to the power terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Liang-Chuan Lee
  • Patent number: 11735261
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for programming enhancement in memory cells are described. An asymmetrically shaped memory cell may enhance ion crowding at or near a particular electrode, which may be leveraged for accurately reading a stored value of the memory cell. Programming the memory cell may cause elements within the cell to separate, resulting in ion migration towards a particular electrode. The migration may depend on the polarity of the cell and may create a high resistivity region and low resistivity region within the cell. The memory cell may be sensed by applying a voltage across the cell. The resulting current may then encounter the high resistivity region and low resistivity region, and the orientation of the regions may be representative of a first or a second logic state of the cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrea Redaelli, Agostino Pirovano, Innocenzo Tortorelli, Fabio Pellizzer
  • 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
  • Patent number: 11676662
    Abstract: A crossbar array apparatus suppressing deterioration of write precision due to a sneak current is provided. A synapse array apparatus includes a crossbar array configured by connecting resistance-variable type memory elements, a row selecting/driving circuit, a column selecting/driving circuit, and a writing unit performing a write operation to a selected resistance-variable type memory element. The writing unit measures the sneak current generated when applying a write voltage to a selected row line before applying the write voltage, and then the writing unit performs the write operation to the selected resistance-variable type memory element by applying a write voltage having a sum of the measured sneak current and a current generated for performing the write operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Winbond Electronics Corp.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Tomita, Masaru Yano
  • Patent number: 11665987
    Abstract: An approach to form a semiconductor structure with a multiple layer phase change material stack and four electrodes that functions as an integrated switch device. The semiconductor structure includes a sidewall spacer that is on two opposing sides of the multiple layer phase change material stack contacting an edge of each layer of the multiple layer phase change material stack. The semiconductor structure includes a pair of a first type of electrode, where each of the pair of the first type of electrode abuts each of the sidewall spacers on the two opposing sides of the multiple layer phase change material stack. A pair of a second type of electrode, where each of the second type of electrode abuts each of two other opposing sides of the multiple layer phase change material stack and contacts a heater material on outside portions of the multiple layer phase change material stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Juntao Li, Kangguo Cheng, Dexin Kong, Zheng Xu
  • Patent number: 11665907
    Abstract: A non-volatile memory includes a first semiconductor layer vertically stacked on a second semiconductor layer and including a first memory group, a second memory group, a third memory group and a fourth memory group. The second semiconductor layer includes a first region, a second region, a third region and a fourth region respectively underlying the first memory group, second memory group, third memory group and fourth memory group. The first region includes one driving circuit connected to memory cells of one of the second memory group, third memory group and fourth memory group through a first word line, and another driving circuit connected to memory cells of the first memory group through a first bit line, wherein the first word line and first bit line extend in the same horizontal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyung-Hwa Yun, Pan-Suk Kwak, Chan-Ho Kim, Bong-Soon Lim
  • Patent number: 11663457
    Abstract: A non-volatile synapse circuit of a non-volatile neural network. The synapse includes: a first input signal line for providing a first input signal; a reference signal line for providing a reference signal; first and second output lines for carrying first and second output signals therethrough, and first and second cells for generating the first and second output signals, respectively. Each of the first and second cells includes: a first upper select transistor having a gate that is electrically coupled to the first input signal line; and a first resistive changing element having one end connected to the first select transistor in series and another end electrically coupled to the reference signal line. The value of the first resistive changing element may be programmable to change the magnitude of an output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Anaflash Inc.
    Inventor: Seung-Hwan Song
  • Patent number: 11665913
    Abstract: A resistive random access memory (RRAM) structure includes a substrate. A transistor is disposed on the substrate. The transistor includes a gate structure, a source and a drain. A drain contact plug contacts the drain. A metal interlayer dielectric layer is disposed on the drain contact plug. An RRAM is disposed on the drain and within a first trench in the metal interlayer dielectric layer. The RRAM includes the drain contact plug, a metal oxide layer and a top electrode. The drain contact plug serves as a bottom electrode of the RRAM. The metal oxide layer contacts the drain contact plug. The top electrode contacts the metal oxide layer and a metal layer is disposed within the first trench.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Yi-Yu Lin, Po-Kai Hsu, Chung-Yi Chiu
  • Patent number: 11659720
    Abstract: A resistive random-access memory (ReRAM) array is provided. The ReRAM array includes a silicon over insulator (SOI) substrate; a first bit line; a first inverted bit line of the first bit line; a second bit line; a second inverted bit line of the second bit line; a first word line; a first inverted word line of the first word line; a first ReRAM cell comprising a first MOSFET, a second MOSFET, and a resistive element; and a second ReRAM cell comprising a first MOSFET, a second MOSFET, and a resistive element connected in series; wherein upon applying a predefined potential on elements of the first ReRAM cell, a state of the first ReRAM cell is adjusted without effecting a state of the second ReRAM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: WEEBIT NANO LTD.
    Inventor: Lior Dagan
  • Patent number: 11641787
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a self-rectifying resistive memory, including: a lower electrode; a resistive material layer formed on the lower electrode and used as a storage medium; a barrier layer formed on the resistive material layer and using a semiconductor material or an insulating material; and an upper electrode formed on the barrier layer to achieve Schottky contact with the material of the barrier layer; wherein, the Schottky contact between the upper electrode and the material of the barrier layer is used to realize self-rectification of the self-rectifying resistive memory. Thus, no additional gate transistor or diode is required as the gate unit. In addition, because the device has self-rectifying characteristics, it is capable of suppressing read crosstalk in the cross-array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: Institute of Microelectronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Inventors: Qing Luo, Hangbing Lv, Ming Liu
  • Patent number: 11625322
    Abstract: In some examples, performance counters for computer memory may include ascertaining a request associated with a memory address range of computer memory. The memory address range may be assigned to a specified performance tier of a plurality of specified performance tiers. A performance value associated with a performance attribute of the memory address range may be ascertained, and based on the ascertained performance value, a weight value may be determined. Based on the ascertained request and the determined weight value, a count value associated with a counter associated with the memory address range may be incremented. Based on an analysis of the count value associated with the counter, a determination may be made as to whether the memory address range is to be assigned to a different specified performance tier of the plurality of specified performance tiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: John G. Bennett, Siamak Tavallaei
  • Patent number: 11615843
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a computer system, a voltage resistance controlling apparatus, and a method that comprises at least two electrodes on proximal endpoints; a first layer disposed on the at least two electrodes, wherein the first layer is a made of a metal-oxide; a second layer disposed on the second layer, wherein the second first layer is made of an electrically conductive metal-oxide; a forming contact disposed on the second layer, wherein a combination of the forming contact disposed on the first layer disposed on the second layer operatively connects the at least two electrodes; and a computer system operatively connected to the forming contact, wherein the computer system is configured to apply a predetermined voltage to the first layer and the second layer respectively and display an overall resistance increase using a user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Bert Jan Offrein, Jean Fompeyrine, Valeria Bragaglia
  • Patent number: 11594277
    Abstract: A method for neural network computation using adaptive data representation, adapted for a processor to perform multiply-and-accumulate operations on a memory having a crossbar architecture, is provided. The memory comprises multiple input and output lines crossing each other, multiple cells respectively disposed at intersections of the input and output lines, and multiple sense amplifiers respectively connected to the output lines. In the method, an input cycle of kth bits respectively in an input data is adaptively divided into multiple sub-cycles, wherein a number of the divided sub-cycles is determined according to a value of k. The kth bits of the input data are inputted to the input lines with the sub-cycles and computation results of the output lines are sensed by the sense amplifiers. The computation results sensed in each sub-cycle are combined to obtain the output data corresponding to the kth bits of the input data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: MACRONIX International Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shu-Yin Ho, Hsiang-Pang Li, Yao-Wen Kang, Chun-Feng Wu, Yuan-Hao Chang, Tei-Wei Kuo
  • Patent number: 11588103
    Abstract: A vertical resistive memory array is presented. The array includes a pillar electrode and a switching liner around the side perimeter of the pillar electrode. The array includes two or more vertically stacked single cell (SC) electrodes connected to a first side of the switching liner. The juxtaposition of the switching liner, the pillar electrode, and each SC electrode forms respective resistance switching cells (e.g., OxRRAM cell). A vertical group or bank of these cells may be connected in parallel and each share the same pillar electrode. The cells in the vertical cell bank may written to or read from as a group to limit the effects of inconsistent CF formation of any one or more individual cells within the group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Youngseok Kim, Choonghyun Lee, Timothy Mathew Philip, Soon-Cheon Seo, Injo Ok, Alexander Reznicek
  • Patent number: 11581042
    Abstract: Provided are processing and an electronic device including the same. The processing apparatus includes a bit cell line comprising bit cells connected in series, a mirror circuit unit configured to generate a mirror current by replicating a current flowing through the bit cell line at a ratio, a charge charging unit configured to charge a voltage corresponding to the mirror current as the mirror current replicated by the mirror circuit unit is applied, and a voltage measuring unit configured to output a value corresponding to a multiply-accumulate (MAC) operation of weights and inputs applied to the bit cell line, based on the voltage charged by the charge charging unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyungwoo Lee, Sangjoon Kim, Seungchul Jung, Yongmin Ju
  • Patent number: 11574669
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for distribution-following access operations for a memory device are described. In an example, the described techniques may include identifying an activation of a first memory cell at a first condition of a biasing operation, and identifying an activation of a second memory cell at a second condition of the biasing operation, and determining a parameter of an access operation based at least in part on a difference between the first condition and the second condition. In some examples, the memory cells may be associated with a configurable material element, such as a chalcogenide material, that stores a logic state based on a material property of the material element. In some examples, the described techniques may at least partially compensate for a change in memory material properties due to aging or other degradation or changes over time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Marco Sforzin, Paolo Amato
  • Patent number: 11574679
    Abstract: A memory circuit configured to perform multiply-accumulate (MAC) operations for performance of an artificial neural network includes a series of synapse cells arranged in a cross-bar array. Each cell includes a memory transistor connected in series with a memristor. The memory circuit also includes input lines connected to the source terminal of the memory transistor in each cell, output lines connected to an output terminal of the memristor in each cell, and programming lines coupled to a gate terminal of the memory transistor in each cell. The memristor of each cell is configured to store a conductance value representative of a synaptic weight of a synapse connected to a neuron in the artificial neural network, and the memory transistor of each cell is configured to store a threshold voltage representative of a synaptic importance value of the synapse connected to the neuron in the artificial neural network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: HRL LABORATORIES, LLC
    Inventors: Wei Yi, Charles Martin, Soheil Kolouri, Praveen Pilly
  • Patent number: 11568929
    Abstract: Provided are a device comprising a bit cell tile including at least two memory cells, each of the at least two memory cells including a resistive memory element, and methods of operating an array of the memory cells, each memory cell including a resistive memory element electrically coupled in series to a corresponding first transistor and to a corresponding second transistor, the first transistor including a first gate coupled to a corresponding one of a plurality of first word lines and the second transistor including a second gate coupled to a corresponding one of a plurality of second word lines, each memory cell coupled between a corresponding one of a plurality of bit lines and a corresponding one of a plurality of source lines. The methods may include applying voltages to the first word line, second word line, source line, and bit line of a memory cell selected for an operation, and resetting the resistive memory element of the memory cell in response to setting the selected bit line to ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Hefei Reliance Memory Limited
    Inventors: Deepak Chandra Sekar, Wayne Frederick Ellis, Brent Steven Haukness, Gary Bela Bronner, Thomas Vogelsang
  • Patent number: 11562779
    Abstract: A memory circuit includes a reference node configured to carry a reference voltage having a reference voltage level, a power supply node configured to carry a power supply voltage having a power supply voltage level, a bit line coupled with a plurality of memory cells, a write circuit configured to charge the bit line by driving a voltage level on the bit line toward the power supply voltage level with a first current, and a switching circuit coupled between the power supply node and the bit line. The switching circuit is configured to receive the voltage level on the bit line, and responsive to a difference between the voltage level received on the bit line and the power supply voltage level being less than or equal to a threshold value, drive the voltage level on the bit line toward the power supply voltage level with a second current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Shang-Chi Wu, Yangsyu Lin, Chiting Cheng, Jonathan Tsung-Yung Chang, Mahmut Sinangil
  • Patent number: 11557344
    Abstract: A memory architecture includes: a plurality of cell arrays each of which comprises a plurality of bit cells, wherein each of bit cells of the plurality of cell arrays uses a respective variable resistance dielectric layer to transition between first and second logic states; and a control logic circuit, coupled to the plurality of cell arrays, and configured to cause a first information bit to be written into respective bit cells of a pair of cell arrays as an original logic state of the first information bit and a logically complementary logic state of the first information bit, wherein the respective variable resistance dielectric layers are formed by using a same recipe of deposition equipment and have different diameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yu-Der Chih, Chung-Cheng Chou, Wen-Ting Chu
  • Patent number: 11552810
    Abstract: The generation of ā€œfingerprintsā€, also called challenge-response pairs (CRPs) of Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs), can often stress electronic components, leaving behind traces that can be exploited by crypto-analysts. A non-intrusive method to generate CRPs based on Resistive RAMs may instead be used, which does not disturb the memory cells. The injection of small electric currents (magnitude of nanoAmperes) in each cell causes the resistance of each cell to drop abruptly by several orders of magnitudes through the formation of temporary conductive paths in each cell. A repeated injection of currents into the same cell, results in an almost identical effect in resistance drop for a single cell. However, due to the small physical variations which occur during manufacturing, the cells are significantly different from each other, in such a way that a group of cells can be used as a basis for PUF authentication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Bertrand Francis Cambou, Raul Chipana Quispe, Bilal Babib
  • Patent number: 11545218
    Abstract: A memory device has a plurality of bit cells, each of which includes an SRAM cell having a storage node selectively connectable to a first bit line in response to a control signal received on a first word line. Each bit cell further includes an MRAM cell selectively connectable to the storage node of the SRAM cell in response to a control signal received on a second word line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Perng-Fei Yuh, Jui-Che Tsai, Hiroki Noguchi, Yih Wang
  • Patent number: 11532635
    Abstract: A high-density low voltage ferroelectric (or paraelectric) memory bit-cell that includes a planar ferroelectric or paraelectric capacitor. The memory bit-cell comprises 1T1C configuration, where a plate-line is parallel to a word-line, or the plate-line is parallel to a bit-line. The memory bit-cell can be 1TnC, where ā€˜nā€™ is a number. In a 1TnC bit-cell, the capacitors are vertically stacked allowing for multiple values to be stored in a single bit-cell. The memory bit-cell can be multi-element FE gain bit-cell. In a multi-element FE gain bit-cell, data sensing is done with signal amplified by a gain transistor in the bit-cell. As such, higher storage density is realized using multi-element FE gain bit-cells. In some examples, the 1T1C, 1TnC, and multi-element FE gain bit-cells are multi-level bit-cells. To realize multi-level bit-cells, the capacitor is placed in a partially switched polarization state by applying different voltage levels or different time pulse widths at the same voltage level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Kepler Computing Inc.
    Inventors: Rajeev Kumar Dokania, Noriyuki Sato, Tanay Gosavi, Pratyush Pandey, Debo Olaosebikan, Amrita Mathuriya, Sasikanth Manipatruni
  • Patent number: 11532347
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes apparatuses, methods, and systems for performing refresh operations on memory cells. A memory can include a group of memory cells and one or more additional memory cells whose data state is indicative of whether to refresh the group of memory cells. Circuitry is configured to apply a first voltage pulse to the group of memory cells to sense a data state of the memory cells of the group, apply, while the first voltage pulse is applied to the group of memory cells, a second voltage pulse having a greater magnitude than the first voltage pulse to the one or more additional memory cells to sense a data state of the one or more additional memory cells, and determine whether to perform a refresh operation on the group of memory cells based on the sensed data state of the one or more additional memory cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Karthik Sarpatwari, Lingming Yang, Nevil N. Gajera, John Christopher M. Sancon
  • Patent number: 11527290
    Abstract: A method of programming a nonvolatile memory device including a plurality of memory cells is provided. Each of the plurality of memory cells includes a reversible resistance device. A target memory cell is selected from among the plurality of memory cells. A target resistance state for the reversible resistance device of the target memory cell is determined. A resistance state of the reversible resistance device of the target memory cell is read. The read resistance state is compared with the target resistance state. One of a positive program operation and a negative program operation is performed for the reversible resistance device of the target memory cell when the read resistance state is different from the target resistance state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventor: Jae Hyun Han
  • Patent number: 11527575
    Abstract: A memory device includes first to nth decks respectively coupled to first to nth row lines which are stacked over a substrate in a vertical direction perpendicular to a surface of the substrate, n being a positive integer, a first connection structure extending from the substrate in the vertical direction to be coupled to the first row line, even-numbered connection structures extending from the substrate in the vertical direction and respectively coupled to ends of even-numbered row lines among the second to nth row lines, and odd-numbered connection structures extending from the substrate in the vertical direction and respectively coupled to ends of odd-numbered row lines among the second to nth row lines. The even-numbered connection structures are spaced apart from the odd-numbered connection structures with the first row line and the first connection structure that are interposed between the even-numbered connection structures and the odd-numbered connection structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventor: Hyung Dong Lee
  • Patent number: 11527714
    Abstract: A memory cell includes: a resistive material layer comprising a first portion that extends along a first direction and a second portion that extends along a second direction, wherein the first and second directions are different from each other; a first electrode coupled to a bottom surface of the first portion of the resistive material layer; and a second electrode coupled to the second portion of the resistive material layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chun-Chieh Mo, Shih-Chi Kuo
  • Patent number: 11521665
    Abstract: A non-volatile memory includes resistive cells, write circuitry, and write detect circuitry. Each resistive cell has a resistive storage element and is coupled to a corresponding first column line and corresponding second column line. The write circuitry is configured to provide a write current through a resistive storage element of a selected resistive memory cell during a write operation based on an input data value. The write detect circuitry is configured to generate a reference voltage using a voltage at the corresponding first column line coupled to the selected resistive memory cell at an initial time of the write operation, and, during the write operation, after the initial time, provide a write detect signal based on a comparison between the voltage at the corresponding first column line coupled to the selected resistive memory cell and the reference voltage, wherein the input data value is based on the write detect signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Jacob T. Williams, Gilles Joseph Maurice Muller, Karthik Ramanan, Jon Scott Choy
  • Patent number: 11522133
    Abstract: Subject matter disclosed herein may relate to fabrication of correlated electron materials used, for example, to perform a switching function. In embodiments, processes are described in which a correlated electron material film may be formed over a conductive substrate by converting at least a portion of the conductive substrate to CEM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Cerfe Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Carlos Alberto Paz de Araujo, Jolanta Bozena Celinska, Christopher Randolph McWilliams, Lucian Shifren, Kimberly Gay Reid
  • Patent number: 11514954
    Abstract: An integrated circuit memory device includes a plurality of row selection transistors and a dummy row selection transistor, on a substrate. A plurality of word lines and a plurality of dummy word lines are also provided on the substrate. A plurality of memory cells are provided, which are electrically connected to corresponding ones of the plurality of word lines. A plurality of dummy memory cells are provided, which are electrically connected to corresponding ones of the plurality of dummy word lines. A first wiring structure is provided, which electrically connects a first one of the plurality of word lines to a first one of the plurality of row selection transistors, and a second wiring structure is provided, which electrically connects the plurality of dummy word lines together and to the dummy row selection transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Inventors: Boram Im, Hongsoo Kim, Jongkook Park, Hose Choi, Hyunju Sung
  • Patent number: 11514965
    Abstract: A resistive memory device is provided. The resistive memory device includes a bitline, a source line, a memory cell electrically connected to the bitline and the source line by a first switch, a first transistor electrically connected to the bitline, a second transistor electrically connected to the source line, a gate voltage generator configured to generate a first gate voltage that is provided to a gate electrode of the first transistor, and configured to generate a second gate voltage that is provided to a gate electrode of the second transistor and a second switch that provides the first and second gate voltages to the gate electrodes of the first and second transistors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Inventor: Artur Antonyan