Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Apparatuses and methods for deactivating a delay locked loop update in semiconductor devices
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Application No.: US16559344Application Date: 2019-09-03
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Publication No.: US11049543B2Publication Date: 2021-06-29
- Inventor: Kazutaka Miyano , Yasuo Satoh , Kenji Mae
- 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: Dorsey & Whitney LLP
- Main IPC: G11C7/00
- IPC: G11C7/00 ; G11C11/406 ; H03L7/081

Abstract:
A semiconductor device may include a delay locked loop (DLL) control circuit coupled to an update trigger generator and a DLL update circuit. The DLL control circuit may receive an update trigger signal and an internal refresh signal and configured to activate the DLL update circuit responsive to an update trigger in the update trigger signal and deactivate the DLL update circuit responsive to an active internal refresh signal. The DLL update circuit may perform DLL update to one or more memory cell arrays when activated and not perform DLL update to the memory cell arrays when deactivated. The DLL control circuit may reactivate the DLL update circuit once the internal refresh signal becomes inactive. In other scenarios, once the DLL update circuit is deactivated, the DLL update circuit stays deactivated until the next update trigger in the update trigger signal.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210065782A1 APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR DEACTIVATING A DELAY LOCKED LOOP UPDATE IN SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES Public/Granted day:2021-03-04
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