Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Apparatuses and methods for subrow addressing
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Application No.: US15846410Application Date: 2017-12-19
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Publication No.: US10332586B1Publication Date: 2019-06-25
- Inventor: Glen E. Hush , Richard C. Murphy
- Applicant: Micron Technology, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US ID Boise
- Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US ID Boise
- Agency: Brooks, Cameron & Huebsch, PLLC
- Main IPC: G11C8/12
- IPC: G11C8/12 ; G11C11/408 ; G11C11/4074

Abstract:
Systems, apparatuses, and methods related to subrow addressing for electronic memory and/or storage are described. Independent subrow addressing may enable energy consumed by performance of an operation on a particular subset of data values stored by a row to more closely correspond to the size of the particular subset of data values relative to energy consumed by addressing and activating the complete row. For instance, one such apparatus includes a plurality of subrows within a row of memory cells and a controller configured to selectably address and manage an activation state of each subrow of the plurality of subrows. The apparatus further includes subrow driver circuitry coupled to the controller. The subrow driver circuitry is configured to maintain one or more subrows of the plurality in the activation state based at least in part on signaling from the controller.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190189185A1 APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR SUBROW ADDRESSING Public/Granted day:2019-06-20
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