Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Event counters for memory operations
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Application No.: US16168952Application Date: 2018-10-24
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Publication No.: US10714185B2Publication Date: 2020-07-14
- Inventor: Marco Sforzin , Umberto Di Vincenzo
- 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: G11C11/34
- IPC: G11C11/34 ; G11C16/12 ; G11C16/28 ; G11C7/14 ; G11C11/24 ; G11C7/06 ; G11C11/404 ; G11C13/00 ; G11C11/56

Abstract:
A counter can have a number of sensing components. Each respective sensing component can be configured to sense a respective event and can include a respective first capacitor configured to be selectively coupled to a second capacitor in response to the respective sensing component sensing the respective event. The second capacitor can be configured to be charged to a voltage by each respective first capacitor that is selectively coupled to the second capacitor. The counter can have a comparator with a first input coupled to the second capacitor and a second input coupled to a reference voltage corresponding to a threshold quantity of events. The comparator can be configured to output a signal indicative of the threshold quantity of events being sensed in response to the voltage of the second capacitor being greater than or equal to the reference voltage.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200135276A1 EVENT COUNTERS FOR MEMORY OPERATIONS Public/Granted day:2020-04-30
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